TWA ANNOUNCES POSTAL CODE SHARE WITH JAPAN'S ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS

Trans World Airlines, Inc. has begun postal code-share service with All Nippon Airways (ANA) to transport mail for the U.S. Postal Service.

TWA and ANA will cooperate on eight ANA-operated routes: Chicago-Tokyo, Guam-Osaka, Honolulu-Nagoya, Honolulu-Osaka, Honolulu-Tokyo, Los Angeles-Tokyo, New York-Tokyo, and San Francisco-Tokyo. The major Japanese airline obtained an approval of the agreement from the Japanese Ministry of Transport last week.

“ANA, Japan’s largest carrier, is known for excellence in cargo handling and transportation,” said Joseph Vilmain, vice-president of cargo at TWA. He added, “TWA is proud to have ANA join our family of postal codeshare partners: Air New Zealand, Kuwait Airways, and Singapore Airlines.”

All Nippon Airways, Japan's largest and the world's eighth largest airline, carried more than 43 million passengers last year. ANA serves 35 cities in Japan and 27 cities overseas, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu and Washington, D.C.

TWA flies approximately two million passengers per month on more than 825 daily flights to 100 destinations (including seasonal service) in North America, the caribbean, Europe and the Middle East.