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TOKYO June 15, 2010 – ANA and Air Macau will commence a code-sharing and reciprocal mileage agreement on July 1 this year, under which ANA will place its NH flight code on Air Macau’s Narita-Macau and Osaka-Macau flights, and Air Macau placing its NX code on ANA’s domestic flights. In this manner, ANA and Air Macau will expand their respective networks into Southern China and Japan, giving passengers increased convenience and ease when traveling between the two countries.

At the same time, ANA and Air Macau will also link their Frequent Flyer Programs (FFP), allowing ANA Mileage Club (AMC) members and Air Macau’s Privileges to accrue and redeem mileage on flights on each other’s networks.

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Hokkaido International Airlines better known as Air Do, a Sapporo-based low-cost carrier, earlier this week has announced its plan to commence twice daily flights from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Tokachi-Obihiro airport to begin in March next year. Adding Obihiro to its network of flights, mainly concentrating on flights to cities in Hokkaido, it will be its fifth connecting Tokyo and Hokkaido. Air Do currently operates services from Tokyo to Sapporo (New Chitose airport), Hakodate, Asahikawa and Memambetsu.

The flights will be operated using its latest Boeing B737-500 aircraft, brought into service earlier this month, with a seating capacity for 126 passengers. Air Do now has a fleet of 2 aircraft types consisting of Boeing B737s and Boeing B767s. AirDo and All Nippon Airways have been long-time code-sharing partners, where ANA sells seats on all flights operate by Air Do.

Until 2002, the Haneda-Obihiro sector was served by 2 companies, Japan Airlines and Japan Air System, however after the merger of the two companies left JAL being the sole carrier on this route with no other carriers to compete against for a number of years. It is now hoping that the new entrant could spur some competition, to help raise the service level and bring down the fare, benefiting the users. The additional flights will help revitalize the local economy and stimulate demand for air travel.

The flight schedules have yet to be released while it is currently pending the approval by the relevant ministies.