Western Australia sure is seeing a lot of growth with long haul flying lately, in particular with Qantas recently launching nonstop flights from Perth to London. Late last year All Nippon Airways announced that they'll launch daily nonstop flights between Tokyo Narita and Perth as of September 1, 2019. The airline will operate flights with…
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There is premium economy in ANA's 184 seat 787-8.
https://www.ana.co.jp/en/us/international/departure/inflight/seatmap/detail/b787_8.html#anchor002
NH's only european destinations from NRT are DUS and BRU, and the only Star Alliance flights from Europe connecting to this new route are Swiss' from ZRH and LOT's from WAW, so i do not think this flight is aimed at European connections either.
It seems that ANA's strategy is capturing the O/D market between Japan and Western Australia and maybe some of Eastern Asia connections, but in either way, wouldn't it be better to start the flight from HND or schedule it to connect of North America flights?
"ANA will be using a Boeing 787-8 for the route, featuring just 184 seats, including 32 business class seats and 152 economy seats (yes, these planes are really sparsely configured, especially when you consider they’re just in a two cabin layout)."
@Lucky
ANA used to have an even more sparse configuration for their 787-8; 46 business and 112 economy, with the economy seats in 2-4-2, total of 158 seats. Too bad that it's gone now and all of ANA's 787 are 3-3-3 in economy :c
Could this be a trial to gauge interest for the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 ? I'm excited we may see other fairly new routes soon which cater to even more secondary markets.
ANA has a 777 with 504 seats with first class that should be your next review. And yes it does get boarded in30 minutes
Pretty kool, Great news for Perth, excellent way to get to Hawaii..
Aussies love Japan so fast connections to the U.S wouldn't be crucial, most people would love a stop over i believe
Lucky can you please include best way to use miles between the two cities? krisflyer, united etc?
Thanks
Yet another route ignored by Australia's own, or should we say Sydney's own, QANTAS.
They just aren't interested in anywhere other than routes from Sydney. Perth - London is only flown bcause they can't do it non-stop from Sydney! Even Melbourne struggles to get Qantas international services!!!!
Yes so excited that we finally get a direct flight to Japan and even better on a Japanese airline. rumours had been floating around for a while about this so its finally good to have it.
Surprising that JAL hasn't joined the bandwagon earlier with their close association with Qantas and OW alliance.
@19NIXXON91, could be, but there are also a lot of Australians (especially those from Perth) that head to Japan for skiing, in season of course. Otherwise, it's an important business link as well as plenty of tourists and people visiting family at other times of the year.
ANA is also going to start service to Chennai, India, this winter—the airport where the leopard cub was rescued. This is southern India's first direct link to eastern Asia, along with a JAL flight to Bengaluru (also in southern India) that was announced at the same time and that will fly from mid-2020.
A strange route for ANA given the (small) size of Perth and the total lack of feeder cities. Would have made more sense to triangulate with ADL to broaden the catchment.