All Nippon

Japan-tastic: Business traffic is up. Tourism is booming. These are good times for Japanese airlines

All Nippon

Japan-tastic: Business traffic is up. Tourism is booming. These are good times for Japanese airlines

April 2018
1 min read
Seth Kaplan

Issue Overview

It’s a good time to be a Japanese airline. The country’s two dominant carriers, All Nippon and Japan Airlines, both earned solid if not spectacular profits last year, fueled by strong demand. Both, meanwhile, are becoming strategically bolder, in a market that’s becoming strategically more important to many foreign airlines. It’s also becoming transformed by a new set of emerging forces.