ALL Nippon Airways (ANA) will be launching its Boeing 787 Dreamliner services with a charter flight from Tokyo-Narita to Hong Kong on October 26.
This flight is only available to ANA Mileage Club members and will be balloted if demand exceeds the 264-seat capacity. ANA’s first B787s will be configured in this 264-seat domestic/regional layout with 12 business and 252 economy-class seats.
Subsequent B787s employed on regional routes will offer 222 seats, while a third configuration with space for 158 pax (46 business-class seats that recline into fully-flat beds, and 112 seats in economy-class) will be deployed on longhaul international routes.
On November 1, ANA will commence regular daily B787 services linking Tokyo-Haneda Airport to Okayama and Hiroshima.
By early-December, the carrier will launch a weekly B787 service between Tokyo-Haneda and Beijing, followed by thrice-weekly services between Tokyo-Haneda and Frankfurt in January next year. The Frankfurt service will be boosted to a daily frequency by February.
By the end of the current financial year (March 31, 2012), ANA expects to add more domestic B787 services linking Tokyo-Haneda to Matsuyama, Osaka-Itami and Yamaguchiube.
ANA has ordered a total of 55 B787 aircraft.
