Who is Best Punctual Airliner in Domestic Network in Japan?

定時運航率で見る日本のエアラインのパフォーマンス

The Editor

October 14, 2019

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has released FY2018 data on punctual departure performance records.

Japanese fiscal year covers April to March.

Accordingly, the list below shows the performance rate compiled from April 2018 to March 2019 by respective carriers. For your information, Japan Airlines in the following data includes JAL’s affiliates of J Air and Hokkaido Air Systems while ANA data also includes ANA Wings. 

Punctuality departure performance by definition means all schedule flights that could depart within 15 minutes of the schedules. However, MLIT data only covers those aircraft with 100 or more seats.

Punctual performance of carries by rank

(Unit: %, parenthesis means FY2017 data)

1st SKYMARK　 93.91 (93.06)

2nd STARFLIER 93.88 （89.86）

3rd Air Do 90.76   (90.06)

4th ANA 90.51 (88.52)

5th JAL 89.91 (90.01)

6 AirAsia Japan 88.63 (90.42)

7 Solaseed Air 87.16 (87.75)

8 Spring Japan 85.08 (83.32)

9 Peach 82.61 (79.17)

10 Jet Star Japan 81.58 (85.17)

11 Japan Trans Ocean 80.39 (83.90)

12 Vanila Air 79.33 (80.94)

I will be pleased if you could refer to the above data when you plan domestic flight in Japan next time.

ANA-Toyota Boshoku Win 2019 Good Design Award for Cabin Passenger Seat

ANA-Toyota Boshoku Joint Designed Passenger Seat Awarded as ‘Good Design’

A new seat for domestic economy class jointly developed by ANA and Toyota Boshoku.

A newly designed passenger seat by ANA and Toyota Boshoku, a major car interior specialized firm as a Toyota Motor group, won the ‘2019 Good Design Award.’ The seat is for domestic routes and ANA will introduce the seats from Fall, 2019.

The winning seat is designed to accommodate any physiques and features of higher convenience for passengers while the slim seat design is intended to give more openness in the cabin. 

Annual Good Desing Award is now a global design competition with the participation of companies and organizations in and out of Japan for better design applications for social challenges. Its icon of ‘G mark’ is accepted as a symbol of excellent designs.　The designs reflect know-how of both ANA as experienced carrier and Toyota Boshoku for manufacturing quality it earned during decades of car seats for automobiles.