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All Nippon Airways 全日本空輸 Zen-nippon Kūyu
IATA NH	ICAO ANA	Callsign All Nippon
Founded		1952 (as Nippon Helicopter)
Hubs		Narita International Airport Tokyo International Airport Kansai International Airport Osaka International Airport
Focus cities		Chubu Centrair International Airport New Chitose Airport
Frequent flyer program		ANA Mileage Club
Member lounge		Club ANA Lounge
Alliance		Star Alliance
Fleet size		156 (+ 109 orders)
Destinations		71
Parent company		All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.
Headquarters		Tokyo, Japan
Key people		Mineo Yamamoto (CEO), Yoji Ohashi (Chairman)
Website: http://www.fly-ana.com

All Nippon Airways Company, Limited (全日本空輸株式会社, Zen-nippon Kūyu Kabushiki-kaisha^?, TYO: 9202 , LSE: ANA), also known as Zennikkū (全日空, Zennikkū^?) or ANA, is an airline headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the country's second-largest domestic and international airline after Japan Airlines. ANA employed 12,277 staff as of January 2005.

ANA's main international hubs are at Narita International Airport outside Tokyo and Kansai International Airport in Osaka. Its main domestic hubs are at Tokyo International Airport, Osaka International Airport, Chubu International Airport (near Nagoya), and New Chitose Airport (near Sapporo).

In addition to its mainline operations, ANA controls several smaller carriers:

• Air Nippon, ANA's regional airline
• Air Japan, which handles charter flights for ANA
• Air Next, a low-cost carrier based at Fukuoka Airport
• Air Central, a regional carrier based at Chubu Centrair International Airport

Contents 1 History 1.1 Formation 1.2 Domestic era 1.3 International era 2 Incidents and accidents 3 Destinations 4 Fleet 4.1 Retired Fleet 5 Subsidiaries 6 Trivia 7 External links 8 References

ANA's earliest ancestor was Nippon Helicopter and Aeroplane (日本ヘリコプター輸送, Nippon Herikoputā Yusō^?), an airline company founded on 27 December 1952. Nippon Helicopter was the source of what would later be ANA's IATA airline code, NH.

NH began helicopter services in February 1953. On 15 December 1953, it operated its first cargo flight between Osaka and Tokyo using a de Havilland Dove, JA5008. This was the first scheduled flight flown by a Japanese pilot in postwar Japan. Passenger service on the same route began on 1 February 1954, and was upgraded to a de Havilland Heron in March. In 1955, the Douglas DC-3 plane began flying for NH as well, by which time the airline's route network extended from northern Kyushu to Sapporo.

ANA's other ancestor was Far Eastern Airlines (極東航空, Kyokutō Kōkū^?). Although it was founded on 26 December 1952, one day before NH, it did not begin operations until 20 January 1954, when it began night cargo runs between Osaka and Tokyo, also using a de Havilland Dove. It adopted the DC-3 in early 1957, by which point its route network extended through southern Japan from Tokyo to Kagoshima.

FEA merged with NH on 1 December 1957. The combined companies had a total market capitalization of 600 million yen. They initially planned to use the name Zen Nippon Kōkū or "All Japan Airlines" for the combined company. However, the statute authorizing the formation of Japan Airlines also banned any other company from using the words "Japan Airlines" (Nippon Kōkū) in its name, so the name "All Nippon Airways" was chosen instead.

ANA grew steadily through the 1960s, adding the Vickers Viscount to the fleet in 1960 and the Fokker F27 in 1961. 1961 marked ANA's debut at the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as the Osaka Securities Exchange; in the same year, the airline was granted a permit to operate flights to Okinawa, technically international flights since Okinawa remained occupied by the US military.

1963 saw another merger, this one with Fujita Airlines, raising the company's capital to 4 billion yen.

In 1964, ANA introduced jet services with Boeing 727s on the Tokyo-Sapporo route. It also introduced Japan's first homegrown turboprop airliner, the YS-11, to replace Convair 440s on local routes. In 1969, ANA introduced Boeing 737 service.

As ANA grew, it took the then-unique step of contracting with travel companies across Japan to handle ground services in each region. Many of these companies received shares in ANA as part of their deals. Some of these relationships continue today in different forms: for instance, Nagoya Railroad, which handled ANA's operations in the Chubu region, maintains a permanent seat on ANA's board of directors.

ANA soon became Japan's largest domestic airline. However, the Ministry of Transportation had granted JAL a monopoly on international scheduled flights, which remained intact until 1986. ANA was allowed to operate international charter flights: its first was a 727 charter from Tokyo to Hong Kong on February 3, 1971.

ANA introduced its first widebody aircraft, the Lockheed L-1011, on the Tokyo-Okinawa route in 1974. The carrier had initially ordered McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, but cancelled the order at the last minute and switched to Lockheed. It was later revealed that Lockheed had indirectly bribed Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to force this switch: the ensuing scandal led to the arrest of Tanaka and several ANA managers for corruption.

Boeing 747s were introduced on the Tokyo-Sapporo and Tokyo-Fukuoka routes in 1978, and Boeing 767s were introduced on Shikoku routes in 1983.

In 1986, ANA began to expand beyond Japan's key domestic carrier to become a competitive international carrier as well. On 3 March 1986, ANA started scheduled international flights with a passenger service from Tokyo to Guam.^[1] Flights to Los Angeles and Washington followed by year's end, and ANA also entered a service agreement with American Airlines to feed the US carrier's new flights to Narita.

ANA expanded its international services gradually: to Beijing, Hong Kong and Sydney in 1987; to Seoul in 1988; to London and Saipan in 1989; to Paris in 1990 and to New York in 1991. Airbus equipment such as the A320 and A321 was added to the fleet in the early 1990s, as was the Boeing 747-481 jet. ANA joined the Star Alliance in October 1999.

2004 saw ANA's profits exceed JAL's for the first time. That year, facing a surplus of slots due to the construction of new airports and the ongoing expansion of Haneda, ANA announced a fleet renewal plan that would replace some of its large aircraft with a greater number of smaller aircraft.^[2]

Also in 2004, ANA set up low-cost subsidiary Air Next to operate flights from Fukuoka Airport starting in 2005, and became the majority shareholder in Nakanihon Airline Service (NAL) headquartered in Nagoya Airport. In 2005, ANA renamed NAL to Air Central, and relocated its headquarters to Chubu Centrair International Airport.

On July 12, 2005, ANA reached a deal with NYK to sell its 27.6% share in Nippon Cargo Airlines a joint venture formed between the two companies in 1987. The sale allowed ANA to focus on developing its own cargo division.

Air Transport World named ANA its 2007 "Airline of the Year."

Since 1971, ANA has had no fatal accidents.

• ANA's first crash occurred in 1958, when a Douglas DC-3, registration JA5045, crashed.
• In 1960, another Douglas DC-3, registration JA5018, was lost.
• In 1966, an ANA Boeing 727 was landing in Tokyo when it crashed into Tokyo Bay, with the loss of all passengers.
• An ANA YS-11 crashed shortly afterward in Matsuyama.
• On July 30, 1971, a Boeing 727, registration JA8329, collided with a JASDF F-86 Sabre fighter stationed at Matsushima Air Base. See: All Nippon Airways Flight 58.
• In 1999, a man hijacked Flight 61 and killed the pilot. He was subdued by other crew members, and nobody else on the airplane was hurt.
• On 13 March 2007, Flight 1603, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft, bound from Osaka to Kōchi, nose-landed safely at Kochi airport after the front wheel of the plane failed to deploy. None of the 53 passengers or four crew were injured. Bombardier advised all operators to inspect the nose landing-gear mechanism of the aircraft^[3].

See full article: All Nippon Airways destinations

ANA's route network extends through Asia, Oceania, North America and Europe. Its key international hub is Narita International Airport, where it shares the South Wing of Terminal 1 with its Star Alliance partners.^[4]

In recent years, ANA has significantly increased its services in Asia, particularly to the People's Republic of China. Most recently, it announced the first direct service between Japan and Tianjin, which will commence in February 2007.

The ANA fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007):

All Nippon Airways Fleet

Aircraft	Total	Notes
Airbus A320	29 (3 orders)
Airbus A321	3
Boeing 737-700	10 (35 orders)
Boeing 747-400	12
Boeing 747-400D	11
Boeing 767-300	34
Boeing 767-300ER	21 (3 orders)
Boeing 767-300F	4
Boeing 777-200	16
Boeing 777-200ER	7
Boeing 777-300	7
Boeing 777-300ER	8 (5 orders)
Boeing 787-3[5]	(30 orders)	Launch Customer
Boeing 787-8[5]	(20 orders)	Launch Customer
Bombardier Dash 8 Q300	5
Bombardier Dash 8 Q400	13 (4 orders)

• 17 Boeing 747-100SR
• 5 Boeing 747-200B
• 1 NAMC YS-11A-200

The average age of All Nippon Airways fleet is 10.3 years as of April 2006.

ANA will be the launch customer for the new Boeing widebody, the 787, ordering 50 examples with an option for 50 more during April 2004. Deliveries will begin in 2008. ANA has split the order between 30 of the short-range 787-3 and 20 of the long haul 787-8 and during October 2004 announced it had selected Rolls-Royce to supply the engines. The aircraft will allow new routes to be opened to mid-sized cities not previously served, such as Denver and Montreal. This move is part of ANA's continuing plan to become an all-Boeing airline.

On 17 February 2005, ANA signed a contract for an additional four Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, bringing the order total for that model to ten, the first of which was delivered in October 2004. Seven 777-300s (all of which were delivered), twenty 777-200s (fourteen of which have been delivered), and seven 777-200ERs (six of which have been delivered) were also ordered, according to Air International (April 2005). The airline has contracted for three A320s and is in the process of leasing two others as a temporary measure until their 737-700 deliveries are complete. The A320s will then be removed from service, as ANA becomes an all-Boeing operator.

ANA announced on January 31, 2006, that it would be converting two of its previously ordered 737-700s to 737-700ERs, thus becoming the launch customer of this longest-range version of the 737.

ANA announced on March 6, 2007 that it had orderd 4 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft as part of its continued fleet expansion.

Originally, there was more than one YS-11 in the All Nippon Airways fleet, although most of the YS-11's were used under the name of ANK, or Air Nippon, a subsidiary of All Nippon Airways. Most all of these YS-11's are in museums, or otherwise scrapped or taken apart. After a final retirement process through September of 2006, all YS-11's were downed, obligated to retire, unless privately owned and were privately renovated. The YS-11 was a big part of All Nippon Airways back in the 1970's to the early 1990's, when it was used as a domestic carrier throughout the Japanese industry of flight.

• Air Nippon
• Air Nippon Network (A-net)
• Air Next
• Air Japan
• Air Central (55% shareholding)
• ANA Cargo
• Air Hokkaido (80% shareholding, ceased operation on March 31, 2006)

• ANA is the official airline of Universal Studios Japan.

• Special painted jets: 3 Pokémon jets (2 Boeing 747-481D and a Boeing 767-381 for domestic service), 4 Star Alliance jets, and one Woody jet in affiliation with USJ, the Universal Studios theme park in Osaka [1].

• Featured in a Taito flight simulator arcade game called Landing High Japan in 1999.

• ANA sponsored the 2003 Japanese television drama Good Luck!! starring Takuya Kimura and Kou Shibasaki, in which the main character developed a career as a pilot with the airline.

• The crashed aircraft is shown in the movie War of the Worlds as a wrecked All Nippon Boeing 747.
• An ANA 747 bound from Washington to Tokyo was the first plane allowed to take off in the United States after the September 11 attacks of 2001.

• All Nippon Airways
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• ANA Fleet Detail
• ANA Passenger Opinions

1. ^ 'The History of ANA's 20 years of international flight Service', ANA Sky Web (June 2006). Retrieved 2 September 2006.
2. ^ Japan Times, (1 October 2004). Retrieved 2 September 2006.
3. ^ Flight International 20-26 March 2007
4. ^ 'Terminal 1 South wing open at Narita Airport', ANA Sky Web (June 2006). Retrieved 2 September 2006.
5. ^ ^{a b} "Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Orders and Deliveries." Boeing.