ANA Announces Golden Week Holiday Passenger Figures; ANA Carries Highest Ever Number of International Passengers During Golden Week.

Tokyo, Japan, May 9, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - ANA Group today announced its passenger traffic figures for the Golden Week holiday period, which ran from April 28 to May 7, 2006.

Fueled by demand for travel to China in particular, which increased 34.8% compared with the previous year's Golden Week, ANA Group carried almost 125,000 passengers to overseas destinations, the highest ever figure recorded for Golden Week, and a total year-on-year increase of 21.3%.

On the domestic front, the actual number of passengers outperformed forecasts, with nearly 1.3 million passengers, a 3% year-on-year increase, travelling the length and breadth of Japan. Hokkaido in the north, and Kyushu in the south, were the most popular destinations. The peak domestic travel day was May 3, when 173,000 passengers took to the skies of Japan.

Domestic
          Available Seats         Passengers              Load Factor
                        year-on-year         year-on-year

 ANA      1,945,577       +0.9%   1,285,171       +3.0%    66.1%




International

          Available Seats         Passengers              Load Factor
                        year-on-year         year-on-year

ANA Group
 From Japan   88,109      +7.1%      61,510      +23.7%     69.8%
 GW Period   176,839      +7.2%     124,780      +21.3%     70.6%

ANA
 From Japan   82,422      +3.2%      57,994      +21.3%     70.4%
 GW Period   165,155      +3.4%     117,848      +19.0%     71.4%

ANK
 From Japan    5,687    +131.7%       3,516      +84.0%     61.8%
 GW Period    11,684    +124.2%       6,932      +80.3%     59.3%

Notes:

1) Golden Week is one of Japan's most famous holiday periods and encompasses a series of four national holidays in more or less succession: Green Day, Constitution Day, Citizen's Day and Children's Day.

2) ANA Group consists of the following six airlines: ANA (All Nippon Airways), Air Nippon (ANK), Air Japan (AJX), Air Nippon Network (A-Net), Air Next (NXA) and Air Central (CRF).

About All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.

All Nippon Airways, or ANA, came into existence in 1952, and over 50 years later is now one of the 10 largest airlines in the world, carrying with its sister companies almost 50 million passengers every year to 49 destinations in Japan, and to 22 overseas cities in Asia, Europe and the United States. As a member of Star Alliance, the world's foremost airline alliance, ANA passengers enjoy access to a network of over 790 airport destinations in 138 countries, and reciprocal benefits such as mileage accrual and redemption, and lounge access.

Source: All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.

Contact:

Rob Henderson
ANA Public Relations
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