Peach Starts Services on Okinawa (Naha) – Taipei (Taoyuan) Route

By BA Staff

Peach Aviation Limited announced today that it had started servicing an Okinawa to Taipei route. The Okinawa to Taipei route is Peach's first international route departing from and arriving at Naha airport, and is the first Japanese airline to operate regular international flight services from Naha airport in approximately 11 years.

Peach Representative Director & CEO Shinichi Inoue said on the opening of Peach’s fifth international route:

“I am truly happy that we have started servicing our first international route departing from and arriving in Okinawa, between Naha and Taipei (Taoyuan). Peach focuses on Okinawa and we are planning to make Okinawa’s Naha airport its second hub after Kansai International Airport and we have started services on 4 routes related to Okinawa soon after the launch of an Okinawa (Naha) to Osaka (Kansai) route on October 18, 2012. As an air travel innovator of the Kansai region, Peach hopes to continue spreading low fare and innovative service from Okinawa, all over Asia. I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the local authorities and the people of the local areas who have offered their full cooperation to make it possible to open this international route.”

Services will start on the Okinawa (Naha) to Taipei (Taoyuan) route with one daily round trip (two flights), and normal fares are 4,780 yen to 21,580 yen (one way, Happy Peach). 

The flight schedule is below:

Flight Number	Departing from Okinawa (Naha)	Arriving in Taipei
MM923	10:00	10:30

Flight Number	Departing from Taipei (Taoyuan)	Arriving in Okinawa (Naha)
MM922	9:35	12:05

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AirAsia Japan takes delivery of its first Airbus A320; to commence operations August 1

AirAsia Japan, a 67%-33% joint venture between Japan's ANA Group, which owns All Nippon Airways, and Malaysia's AirAsia has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 aircraft in Toulouse, France.

The Japanese low cost carrier will start commercial services on August 1st from Tokyo's Narita International Airport to the Japanese cities of Sapporo and Fukuoka, and from August 3rd to Okinawa with an initial fleet of two A320 aircraft.

AirAsia Japan will go international when it starts flights to Korea in October. Seoul Incheon airport, and Pusan, with the fleet growing to four aircraft by the end of 2012.

AirAsia Japan’s A320s are in the standard LCC configuration of 180 seats in an all economy cabin. Like the A320 fleet of AirAsia, the AirAsia Japan A320s are also powered by CFM56 engines.

AirAsia Japan President Kazuyuki Iwakata was beaming

“We are extremely happy to take delivery of our brand new Airbus A320. Our aim is to provide opportunities for everyone to fly with low fares. With the A320’s cabin comfort and operational reliability, we want to offer better access, in particular for the Japanese travelling public, and make them feel easy to fly,”

AirAsia Japan, was established in August 2011, and shall operate under the AirAsia brand.

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