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Japan Airlines launches joint business agreement with British Airways
September 28, 2012

Japan Airlines and British Airways have confirmed they will begin a joint business agreement, with the two airlines sharing revenue on applicable flights between Europe and Japan.

The joint business, which starts on October 1st, will benefit customers by providing better links between Japan and Europe, greater choice of flights to more destinations, enhanced frequent flyer benefits and the potential to launch new routes.

JAL and British Airways, both members of the oneworld alliance, have been forging ever closer ties in their evolution to the joint business.

Earlier this month, JAL and British Airways began offering codeshare flights between Tokyo (Haneda and Narita) and London (Heathrow).

The joint business will now see the two airlines cooperating on all non-stop flights operated by JAL or British Airways between Japan and Europe.

This will not only include the 19 weekly services between the UK and Japan, but also JAL’s services to Paris and Frankfurt.

This gives customers the flexibility of using a combination of JAL and British Airways flights and aligned fares on their journey to and from Japan and Europe, significantly increasing their options.

“We are looking forward to creating more customer benefits with this deeper level of cooperation with our long-time partner, British Airways,” said Yoshiharu Ueki, president of Japan Airlines.

“Together with the inauguration of JAL’s brand new seats and services between Narita and London from January next year, we hope to offer our customers an even greater travel experience than before.”

JAL and British Airways will also be improving flight transfers for customers through enhancing and expanding the codeshare network beyond their respective hub cities.

JAL customers will, be able to book seats to the new codeshare destinations of Belfast, Helsinki, Frankfurt, and Gothenburg while British Airways will extend its reach to more points in Japan by code sharing on JAL flights to Kansai, Okayama, Hiroshima, Izumo, Nagasaki, Kagoshima and Okinawa.

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