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JAL TO SERVE MELBOURNE IN NEW CODE SHARE WITH QANTAS

25 June 2002

Japan Airlines will start a daily code share flight between Tokyo and Melbourne from Thursday August 1st in cooperation with code-share partner Qantas Airways, subject to government approval. The flight will be operated by Qantas aircraft and crew.

Currently JAL operates 21 round trip flights between Japan and Australia per week with its own aircraft and crews and has code share operations with Qantas on an additional seven round trip flights. The new code share flight to Melbourne will increase JAL's destinations served in Australia to four (Sydney, Cairns, Brisbane, Melbourne) and will increase the total number of JAL round trip flights between Japan and Australia to 35 per week.

JAL and Qantas have been cooperating in code share flights since April 1986 when the two airlines started services from Tokyo to Cairns and Perth. At present the carriers operate code share flights on the following three routes: Tokyo-Cairns (Qantas operation), Tokyo-Brisbane (JAL operation) and Osaka-Brisbane-Sydney-Osaka (JAL operation).

Route

Flight number

Days of operation

Tokyo-Melbourne

Dep 20:15 Arr 07:30 next day

JL779

Daily

Melbourne-Tokyo

(via Sydney)

Dep 07:35 Arr. 19:00

JL770

Thu, Sat, Sun

Melbourne-Tokyo non-stop

Dep 09:35 Arr. 19:00

JL 770

Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri.

Aircraft type

Boeing 767

Operating carrier

QANTAS

Flight distance

8,144 km

JAL Mileage Bank earnings

5,090 miles

 

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