The Japanese government is hinting at the possibility of a merger between the nation's two largest airlines. This comes just a week after we learned that South Korea's two largest airlines -- Asiana and Korean Air -- will be merging. The government of…
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I think it's safe to say that this is the first time that a group has chartered the world's largest plane to fly nowhere... Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has in the past few months operated a couple of "flights to nowhere," given the challenges otherwise…
All Nippon Airways has announced a business restructuring. In addition to retiring 22 Boeing 777s, the airline will also be forming a new low cost carrier. Currently the airline group has two airlines: There's All Nippon Airways, which is the full service…
I'm undecided as to whether this innovation is awesome or unnecessary and overly complicated. Japan's All Nippon Airways is trialing an airplane lavatory add-on at one of its Tokyo Haneda Airport lounges. The Star Alliance airline is soliciting feedback…
While Japan is off limits for most tourists at the moment, All Nippon Airways has at least made a positive change for when we can fly with the Japan-based Star Alliance airline again. ANA has this month updated fuel surcharges, and with this we're seeing…
While most of us probably aren't going to be traveling anytime soon, there's nothing wrong with starting to think about the award redemptions you're most excited about in the future, or even planning some award travel way in advance. In this post I wanted…
We're not exactly seeing airlines introduce many positive product innovations at the moment, but All Nippon Airways seems to be the exception. This was supposed to be an exciting year for Japan, as the 2020 Summer Olympics were supposed to be held in…
All Nippon Airways has apparently had a private first class car transfer service at Haneda Airport that I was unfamiliar with, even though it has been around for years. But it seems kind of... useless? While some airlines offer chauffeur service to &…
When it comes to Tokyo Airports, Haneda is significantly more convenient than Narita, since it's closer to the city. Historically a majority of long haul flights have been into Narita due to Haneda being significantly slot restricted, but that has slowly…
In July 2019, All Nippon Airways introduced spectacular-looking new first & business class seats with barely any lead time, as their first plane with these seats entered service just weeks later. I knew I had to try them, because both first and business…
Ah, now this could be interesting, and possibly explain the claims that Singapore Airlines will launch a Tokyo to New York flight. Nikkei Asian Review is reporting that All Nippon Airways and Singapore Airlines may announce a new joint venture as early…
Over the past several months we've seen some fantastic new business class products introduced, including from All Nippon Airways, British Airways, and Virgin Atlantic. Of those, I was particularly impressed by All Nippon Airways' new 777-300ER business…
I was flying Lufthansa's A350-900 business class from Tokyo Haneda to Munich at 12:45PM, though decided to head over to the All Nippon Airways Business Class Lounge the second it opened, so that I could get pictures before the lounge filled up. All Nippon…
In July 2019, All Nippon Airways introduced spectacular-looking new first & business class seats with barely any lead time, as their first plane with these seats entered service just weeks later. I knew I had to try them, because both first and business…
ANA has now scheduled their reconfigured 777s (with new first and business class seats) to a third destination, which is an awesome development! In early July, All Nippon Airways revealed a brand new first & business class product. This caught many of…
In early 2020 I'm hoping to continue my late 2019 trend of lots of useful airline reviews, so I'm trying to get the year off to a good start. A few days ago I wrote about how I booked a trip that included Starlux Airlines' new A321neo business class,…
One of the single best airline sweet spot awards is redeeming Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles for travel on All Nippon Airways. Check out my previous post for all the details of redeeming Virgin Atlantic miles for travel on ANA, though basically their…
It's time to finish up this Japan trip report, because I'm doing an insane amount of flying this week that I want to start writing about. I'm going to do something very different for this trip report installment -- I'm going to make it very brief. I…
We took the Narita Express to the airport, and arrived at Terminal 1 at around 2PM. We already had our online boarding passes so were going to just head straight for security, though while walking there we found the "ANA Suite Check-In," and decided…
When we pulled up to the remote stand we proceeded up the stairs to the forward left door of the aircraft. ANA's 737-800s have an odd configuration. There are a total of eight business class seats, spread across four rows in a 2-2 configuration. While…
Apparently airlines copying one another isn't limited to US airlines making negative frequent flyer program changes. ;) Today both All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines have announced that they plan to launch nonstop flights between Tokyo Narita and…
Our flight from Chicago arrived at 2:10PM, and our connecting flight to Nagoya was at 5:05PM, so we had just under three hours. Immigration was super efficient. I find that Narita has really inconsistent wait times, though we were the only flight arriving…
We arrived at O'Hare Airport at around 9AM for our 11:20AM flight to Tokyo Narita. We had already checked in online, so we headed straight through security and to the United Polaris Lounge, which ANA uses for their first and business class passengers…
Welcome to my next trip report, covering travel in ANA first class to Japan using an incredible mileage deal, as well as stays at several hotels that I've been wanting to stay at for a while. Ford had never been to Japan before (other than connecting…
