Getting Undomesticated
All Nippon Airways

Getting Undomesticated: It’s all international for All Nippon as Japan’s largest airline seeks refuge abroad

All Nippon Airways

Getting Undomesticated: It’s all international for All Nippon as Japan’s largest airline seeks refuge abroad

February 2014
2 min read
Seth Kaplan

Issue Overview

A domestic-heavy airline, bombarded with a sudden explosion of low-cost shorthaul competition, seeks refuge abroad. If that sounds like a description of how U.S. airlines began to improve their fortunes a decade ago—well, it is. But now, halfway around the world, Japan’s largest airline is doing exactly the same.