JAL Group Traffic Results for 2006 Summer Vacation Period.Tokyo, Japan, Aug 21, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - Japan Airlines Group today announced its results for international and domestic traffic for the Japanese summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. period, stretching this year from August 11 to August 20, 2006. During the 10-day summer vacation period, the JAL JAL Jalisco (Mexican state) JAL Jalapa (Guatemala territorial division) JAL Jump And Link JAL Japan Airlines Company, Ltd. Group - based on the combined results of JAL, JALways and Japan Asia Airways Japan Asia Airways, Co., Ltd. (日本アジア航空株式会社 - carried a total of 459,059 international passengers, just 1.0% less than in the same vacation period last year. The results showed that leisure travel to China was definitely back on the road to full recovery with passenger numbers up 38.3% on last year's figures. Last year's figures had been severely affected by anti-Japanese demonstrations held in China in April 2005. Passenger traffic on transpacific trans·pa·cif·ic adj. 1. Situated on or coming from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. 2. Spanning or crossing the Pacific Ocean. routes to the mainland of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. was good, up 14.5% on last year's results; and passenger numbers up a moderate 1.4% on Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. routes. Route restructuring over the past year resulted in a 9.2% decrease in the total number of international seats available which to some extent led to the high international seat load factor of 82.8%. The JAL Group domestic summer vacation domestic passenger total was 1,464,873, 2.4% up on last year's result. Domestic seat supply was 0.2% lower than the same period last year and load factor was 72.3%. For complete information on the JAL summer vacatio period traffic, please visit the JAL website at http://www.jal.com/en/press/0000665/665.html. About Japan Airlines Corporation The JAL Group (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 9201) is Japan's leading air transportation group, resulting from the integration of Japan Airlines and Japan Air System on October 2, 2002. On April 1, 2004 the Group was reorganized under a single "JAL/ Japan Airlines" brand, with Japan Airlines Domestic handling domestic passenger operations and Japan Airlines International responsible for international passenger and cargo operations. Coordinating the group is Japan Airlines Corporation, a holding company. JAL International and JAL Domestic will be integrated into one company in October 2006. For more information, please visit www.jal.com. Source: Japan Airlines Corporation Contact: JAL Press Office Stephen Pearlman stephen.pearlman@jal.com Tel: 81-3-5460-3109 Fax: 81-3-5769-6487 http://www.jal.com/en/corporate Copyright [c] 2006 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network K.K. |
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