JAL supports quake zone with charter flights
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Japan Airlines (JAL) will operate a series of international charter flights to the country’s Tohoku region, which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
As part of its ‘Visit Tohoku’ CSR programme, the airline will operate three special flights this October, connecting the northeastern region with Taiwan and Hawaii.
On 24 October, JAL will fly a Boeing 767-300 aircraft from Taipei to Sendai, offering Taiwanese visitors the chance to spend four days in the city before return to Taipei on 28 October. The return flight will operate via Aomori, in the far north of Japan’s Honshu island.
Then on 29 October the B767 will fly from Taipei to Yamagata, again spending four days in the region before returning via Aomori.
And finally on 23 December 2013, JAL will operate a charter flight from Fukushima to Honolulu, aboard its B767. The flight will return on 27 December.
JAL said the Taipei flights were intended to allow the people of Taiwan the chance to “experience Tohoku’s attractions in line with further stimulating tourism demands in Tohoku”. The Fukushima-Honolulu service meanwhile, is intended to “provide residents in Fukushima a closer opportunity to refresh their minds… and encourage them to keep walking on the way to rehabilitation”.
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