from Nikkei Shimbun, November 12, 2010
Skymark Airlines showed its plans to inaugurate international scheduled flights from Narita International Airport to three destinations of London, Frankfurt and New York, starting from 2014. The carrier, so far flying only domestic routes, will introduce six Airbus A380 for this venture and may introduce about half of legacy carriers.
Skymark's A380 will seat as many as 394 with business class accounting for 30%.
Skymark will decide to add 9 more A380s by seeing the performance of the first three routes for more expansion of international routes such as Paris, Los Angeles and Bangkok from Kansai and Chubu International Airports.
For Airbus, this order is the first of A380 in Japan where Boeing aircraft account for 80% in the market and may become a milestone for Airbus.
