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Japan Airlines, JAL to unveil its latest livery painted with “Doraemon” and its animated cartoon characters commerating its 30th aniversary.

In celebration of the 30th aniversary in animated movie business and the 40th aniversary since its creation, an anime movie has been made, named: Doraemon The Movie: Nobita’s Great Battle of the Mermaid King (in Japanese; 映画ドラえもん のび太の人魚大海戦, “Eiga Doraemon Nobita no Ningyo Daikaisen”), also being known as DORAEMON THE LEGEND 2010, will be released on March 6, 2010.

JAL will emblazon on one of its B777-300 aircraft, starting from mid-February and ending in April, scheduled to operate on a number of domestic routes out of Haneda to New Chitose (Sapporo), Itami (Osaka), Fukuoka, and Naha. Inflight service along on this aircraft and all other aircrafts serving the domestic routes will be screening a year 2006 released Doraemon anime movie as part of its inflight entertainment, between February and April, also including on its international routes for a shorter period from March to April.

Further details of the schedule will be announced and released on its official homepage.

Current and past aircraft liveries:

Japan Airlines (JAL) will further expand its code share agreement with Vietnam Airlines (VN) and will start offering the Osaka (Kansai) – Hanoi route operated by VN from January 13, 2010.

As announced in November last year, Japan Airlines will suspend its existing once-daily flight between Osaka (Kansai) and Hanoi from January 11, 2010. Hanoi, with its high economic growth and rich culture, remains a key destination in South East Asia that attracts many foreign businessmen and leisure travelers. Through the new code share arrangement, JAL will maintain a network of 7 routes with 33 weekly round-trip flights to Vietnam and continue providing valued customers with convenient connections to the popular city.

JAL operates flights from Tokyo (Narita) to Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi, and also offer code share flights with Vietnam Airlines on the routes Osaka (Kansai) – Ho Chi Minh, Fukuoka – Ho Chi Minh, Fukuoka – Hanoi, and Nagoya (Chubu) – Hanoi.

Reservations and ticket sales of the new code share flights start tomorrow.

New Osaka (Kansai) – Hanoi Code Share Flights

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