JAL Express

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JAL Express Co., Ltd. (株式会社JALエクスプレス, Kabushiki-gaisha JAL Ekusupuresu^?) is a wholly owned subsidiary airline of Japan Airlines (JAL). It is a low-cost airline operating domestic services. Its main base is Osaka International Airport.^[1]

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Destinations 3.1 Hokkaidō 3.2 Honshū 3.3 Kyūshū 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: JC
• ICAO Code: JEX ^[1]
• Callsign: Janex

[edit] History

The airline was established on 1 April 1997 and started operations on 1 July 1998. It began services with a twice daily flight from Osaka to Miyazaki and Kagoshima. It has 357 employees (at March 2007).^[1]

[edit] Destinations

JAL Express operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at March 2007)^[1] :

[edit] Hokkaidō

• Sapporo

[edit] Honshū

• Chūbu region
  • Aichi Prefecture
    • Nagoya
• Kansai region
  • Hyogo Prefecture
    • Kobe
  • Osaka Prefecture
    • Osaka
• Tōhoku region
  • Miyagi Prefecture
    • Sendai

[edit] Kyūshū

• Kumamoto Prefecture
  • Kumamoto
• Nagasaki Prefecture
  • Nagasaki
• Ōita Prefecture
  • Ōita

Plan to launch international services to China and South Korea in 2009 [1].

[edit] Fleet

The JAL Express fleet consists the following aircraft^[1] :

• 8 Boeing 737-400
• 5 McDonnell Douglas MD-81
• 1 Boeing 737-800

[edit] External links

• JAL Express

[edit] References

v • d • e JAL Group Regional Hokkaido Air System · J-Air · Japan Air Commuter · Japan Transocean Air · Ryukyu Air Commuter International Japan Airlines · JALways Low-cost JAL Express Former Japan Airlines Domestic · Japan Asia Airways

v • d • e Airlines of Japan Low cost domestic airlines ANA: (Air Japan · Air Next) · Air Do · JAL Express · Skymark Airlines · StarFlyer Domestic airlines JAL: (Hokkaido Air System · J-Air · Japan Air Commuter · Japan Transocean Air · Ryukyu Air Commuter ) ANA: (Air Central  · Air Japan  · Air Nippon  · Air Nippon Network)  · airtransse · Amakusa Airlines · Ibex Airlines · Kyokushin Air · New Central Airlines · Oriental Air Bridge · Skynet Asia Airways International and domestic airlines All Nippon Airways · JAL: (Japan Airlines · JALways) Cargo airlines ANA & JP Express · Galaxy Airlines · Nippon Cargo Airlines Defunct airlines see Defunct airlines of Japan