All Nippon Airways Will Lease Three Airbus A320s from Mitsui.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001 All Nippon Airways airways Anatomy The 'pipes'–trachea, bronchi, bronchioles–through which air passes to and from the alveoli. See Small airways. (ANA), Japan's largest and the world's eighth largest airline, will lease three Airbus A320 aircraft from Mitsui & Company, a key element of its recently announced plan to reduce the number of aircraft types in its fleet. "The streamlining of our narrow-body domestic fleet to the highly touted Airbus A320 will yield greater efficiencies for ANA," said ANA President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Yoji Ohashi. The three leased Airbus A320 aircraft, which seat 166 passengers, will be delivered in 2003, and will be powered by CFM56-5A1 engines, manufactured in a joint venture by General Electric and Snecma of France. ANA currently operates 25 Airbus A320s and seven A321s on domestic routes in Japan, where ANA and its subsidiaries Air Nippon
Air Nippon ( (ANK ANK Ankara (Turkey) ANK Attempted, Not Known ANK Alphanumeric Keyboard ANK Anunaki (ancient Sumerian Gods) ) and Air Hokkaido carry nearly half of all domestic passengers. On March 28, ANA announced its intention to introduce three additional Airbus A320 aircraft into its fleet, and to retire its Airbus A321s in a fleet rationalization program consistent with the principles of "selection and concentration" outlined in ANA's medium-term corporate plan. At that time ANA also disclosed that it would order nine Boeing 767-300ER aircraft, to be delivered between Aril 2002 and March 2003, and said it would retire the last 11 of its 767-200 aircraft over the next three years. ANA currently operates 53 Boeing 767-200s and 300s, and has a total of 143 Airbus and Boeing aircraft in its fleet. With retirements and previously announced orders for new aircraft, the ANA Group will have a fleet of 164 aircraft in service by April 2003. The ANA Group includes Air Japan, a scheduled regional carrier in Asia, in addition to ANA and ANK. ANA, which transported more than 43 million passengers in 2000, serves 35 gateways in Japan and 25 cities in 12 countries overseas, including New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Washington, D.C., San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Honolulu. |
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