ANA All Nippon Airways

ANA All Nippon Airways

·        Introduction

All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (全日本空輸株式会社 Zen Nippon Kūyu Kabushiki gaisha, TYO: 9202), conjointly referred to as Zenick (全日空) or ANA, is that the largest airline in Japan on the premise of fleet size. Its headquarters square measure placed at Shiodome central city within the Shiodome space of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had more than 20,000 employees as of March 2016. In May 2010, ANA's total passenger traffic was up year-on-year by 7.8%, and its international services grew by twenty second to a pair of.07 million passengers in the first five months of 2010. ANA's main international hubs are at Narita International airdrome outside Tokyo and Kansai International airdrome outside Osaka. Its main domestic hubs unit of measurement at Tokyo International airfield (Haneda), Osaka International airdrome (Itami), Chūbu Centrair International Airport (near Nagoya), and New Chitose Airport (near Sapporo).

In addition to its inject operations, ANA controls many subsidiary rider carriers,including its regional airline, ANA Wings and charter carrier, Air Japan. Additional smaller carriers embrace Air Do, a low-priced carrier operational scheduled  service between Tokyo and cities in Hokkaido; Vanilla Air, a low-cost carrier serving resort and selected international destinations; and Allex lading (ANA Cargo), the freighter division operated by Air Japan. ANA is additionally the most important shareowner in Peach, a low-cost carrier joint venture with Hong Kong company First Eastern Investment Group. In Oct 1999, the airline became a member of Star Alliance. On twenty nine March 2013, ANA was named a 5-Star Airline by Skytrax. On twenty seven Apr 2018, ANA proclaimed ANA Business Jet Co., Ltd., a joint venture with Sojitz to offer private jet charter flights.

·        Corporate affairs and identity

·        Headquarters

All Nippon Airways is headquartered at the Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

In the late 1960s ANA had its headquarters in the Hikokan Building in Shinbashi, Minato.From the 1970s through the late 1990s All Nippon Airways was headquartered in the Kasumigaseki Building in Chiyoda, Tokyo.Before moving into its current headquarters, ANA had its headquarters on the grounds of Tokyo International Airport in Ōta, Tokyo. In 2002 ANA announced that it was taking on to ten floors within the then under-construction Shiodome center. ANA declared that it absolutely was conjointly moving some subsidiaries to the Shiodome city centre.Shiodome City Center, which became ANA's headquarters, opened in 2003.

·        Destinations

ANA has an intensive domestic route network that covers everything of Japan, from island within the north to Okinawa within the south. ANA's international route network extends through China, Korea, Southeast Asia, United States, Mexico, and Western Europe. Its key international hub is Narita International flying field, where it shares the South Wing of Terminal 1 with its Star Alliance partners.

ANA's international network presently focuses on business destinations; its solely remaining "resort" routes square measure its routes from Haneda and Narita to Honolulu; past resort routes like Narita-Guam, Kansai-Honolulu and Nagoya-Honolulu are off, though ANA plans to expand resort service within the future through its low-priced subsidiary Vanilla Air.

·        Services

·        New cabin

Introduced in 2009, the "Inspiration of Japan" cabin options enclosed fully-lie-flat-bed business category seats, nearly enclosed first class suite seats, fixed shell back seats in both of its economy classes, a new AVOD in-flight entertainment system (based on Panasonic Avionics Corporation's eX2 IFE system with iPod connectivity, in-seat shopping and meal ordering as well as cabin touchscreen consoles) as well as improvements to its in-flight service. ANA will also introduce a new lounge (which opened on 20 February 2010, supposed to be in coincidence with the introduction of new aircraft interiors but delayed [see below]) and check-in concept (later in autumn 2010) at Narita for first class and ANA Mileage Club's Diamond Service elite members.

The introduction of the conception additionally out of print the employment of the name "Club ANA", which was used for its international business class seats (changing into a generic business class name) as well because the name of the lounges (all lounges for each firstclass and business class square measure named "ANA Lounge", with the first class lounge known as the "ANA Suite Lounge" and its arrival lounge the "ANA Arrival Lounge").

This "Inspiration of Japan" construct was originally set to debut on twenty February 2010 with the delivery of its new Boeing 777-300ER before that date, followed by the introduction of the concept on that date on the Narita-New York route. However, thanks to delays to the new premium economy seats, the debut was pushed back to 19 April. (The delay was thanks to the failure of a security take a look at in Japan of a brand new seat style shaft, made by seat manufacturer Koito Industries Ltd. This safety test failure also affected deliveries of aircraft to be operated by three other fellow Star Alliance members – Singapore Airlines for its A380s, Thai Airways' A330s, and Continental Airlines for new 737-800 deliveries.

The "Inspiration of Japan" concept has been refitted on its existing 777-300ERs for service on all the airline's North American routes,and may be refitted on its European routes. Parts of it may eventually be phased into its existing Boeing 767-300ERs in service as well as the upcoming Boeing 787s in order.

Since Feb 2010 ANA offers women's-only toilets on international flights. the primary Boeing 787 the airline received have the bidets in each economy and business category toilet.

·        Inflight magazine

ANA's inflight magazine is named Wingspan and is available both on board and as a freely downloadable application for Apple's iPad. The iPad version is named 'Virtual Airport' and includes content from Wingspan as well as links to airline booking and online check-in pages.

·        Bus shuttle services

Previously ANA had a dedicated shuttle bus from Düsseldorf to Frankfurt Airport so passengers may board ANA flights at that airport, but the bus service was discontinued after ANA began its Düsseldorf flights; the dedicated Düsseldorf flights began in 2014.