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Japan's Air Do To File For Bankrupcy - CNN  
User currently offlineVirginFlyer From New Zealand, joined Sep 2000, 4502 posts, RR: 49
Posted (10 years 12 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1070 times:

Was just on the airliners.net frontpage when I noticed this:

TOKYO, Japan -- Hokkaido International Airline plans to file for bankruptcy, seven years after its inception, sources suggest.

It would be the first airline to fail in Japan since the industry opened up in 1997. It is looking to restructure with help from All Nippon Airways, Japan's No. 2 carrier.

The airline is known as Air Do. Its troubles illustrate the difficulties of an upstart airline going wing to wing with Japan's entrenched carriers.

for more go to http://europe.cnn.com/2002/BUSINESS/asia/06/24/japan.airdo/index.html


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User currently offlineSwissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5265 posts, RR: 36
Reply 1, posted (10 years 12 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1059 times:

Very sad when I see another airline that could disappear... Where did they operate their flights. Where they focused on Domestic flights to Hokkaido?


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User currently offlineJsmith From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (10 years 12 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1045 times:

Swissgabe

Yes - their sole route, as I understand, is the Sapporo-Tokyo (Haneda) route. The leases on their B767s (which are all supplied by Ansett Worldwide) were recently re-negotiated after the Hokkaido Prefecture government announced that it was no longer prepared to continue financing the airline's losses.

User currently offlineVirginFlyer From New Zealand, joined Sep 2000, 4502 posts, RR: 49
Reply 3, posted (10 years 12 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1022 times:

At the end of 2000 (wow, was it that long ago - I can remember that thread like it was yesterday!) they reintroduced smoking in an attempt to draw more people to them.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/337407/

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User currently offlineSwissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5265 posts, RR: 36
Reply 4, posted (10 years 12 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1005 times:

Jsmith, thanks for the info...

VirginFlyer, since smoking is quite popular in Japan I think this was an excellent idea...


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