JAL Group Traffic Result for 2005 Summer Vacation Period

During the 31-day Japanese summer vacation period from 22 July to 21 August 2005 the JAL Group, based on the combined results of JAL, JALways and Japan Asia Airways, carried a total of 684,956 international passengers, just 0.9% less than in the same vacation period last year. The seat load factor was 73.4%.

Traffic on transpacific routes to Hawaii, the mainland of North America and Korea either matched or exceeded last year’s results. Load factors were high on routes from Japan to Hawaii (81.9%), the mainland USA (91.7%) and Oceania (86.3%). On the downside, demand to beach resort destinations in Southeast Asia routes was below last year, reflecting the slow recovery of Japanese traffic since the December 2004 tsunami. Traffic to China was also down on last year (-6.5%), due to the lingering effect of anti-Japanese demonstrations in April this year.

JAL operated 34 extra flights on Pacific resort routes and additionally made a total of 152 tourist charter flights (106 more than in the 2004 vacation season) including some to new destinations such as Prague, St. Petersburg and Alice Springs, Australia, as well as to resort spots such as Hawaii, Guam and Palau.

The group domestic summer vacation domestic passenger total was 4,253,368 – 1.4% lower than last year’s result. However domestic seat supply was 2.6% lower than the same period last year and load factor improved to 68.5%.

The JAL Group operated an additional 147 flights to popular vacation destinations, including Okinawa.

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