Long-haul low-cost carrier ZIPAIR inaugurated flights between Tokyo NRT and Houston IAH on Tuesday 4 March. The 10,690-kilometre service will be maintained 4-weekly, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, with a 290-seat 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. It faces competition from daily United flights on the route. Flight ZG15 departs Tokyo NRT at 10:00 local time, arriving […]
March 6, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Asia-Pacific accounts for just over a fifth of Canada’s long-haul available capacity this summer, 11 percentage points lower than in S19. The market remains down by a considerable quarter versus S19, primarily because of the extremely slow recovery of China. In contrast, Canada’s long-haul capacity generally has risen by 2%. Multiple new routes Despite Asia-Pacific’s […]
April 16, 2024 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
ZIPAIR (IATA code ZG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Airlines, entered the Canadian market with the introduction of flights between Tokyo NRT and Vancouver on Wednesday 13 March. The long-haul LCC will initially maintain the 7,520-kilometre service 3-weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, with the 290-seat 787-8 aircraft. Services will increase to 5-weekly from 23 […]
March 15, 2024 | Latest Route News +
It was another fairly quiet week for new route launches in Europe and North America. Air Service One identified just 18 new routes across the two regions. These were [date of first flight, weekly frequency]: Aeromexico has added three new non-stop routes to the US; between Guadalajara and Detroit, Merida and Atlanta, and Monterrey and […]
Spirit inaugurated San Jose service on 7 June, becoming the ULCC’s seventh airport across California. It has 28-weekly departures across three routes: Las Vegas (2-daily), Dallas DFW (daily) and San Diego (daily). Spirit became San Jose’s second new airline in six months, following the 12 December 2022 launch of ZIPAIR, a wholly owned subsidiary of […]
June 13, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
ZIPAIR (IATA code ZG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Airlines, has added a fourth US destination from its home base at Tokyo NRT. On Friday 2 June the carrier began 5-weekly operations on the 8,245-kilometre service to San Francisco. It will operate the 290-seat 787-8s on the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. ZIPAIR will complement […]
June 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
ZIPAIR (IATA code ZG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Airlines, has added a third US destination from its home base at Tokyo NRT. On Monday 12 December the carrier began 3-weekly service (increasing to 5-weekly in January) on the 8,300-kilometre route to San José SJC in California. It will operate 290-seat 787-8s on the […]
December 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
With significant travel restrictions in place, new intercontinental routes to/from destinations in Asia have been few and far between since the start of the pandemic. So congratulations to ZIPAIR (IATA code ZG), the low-cost medium/long-haul subsidiary of Japan Airlines for starting service, on Christmas Day no less, between Tokyo NRT and Los Angeles. The 3-weekly […]
January 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +