Travel Oct. 10, 2010 - 04:29AM JST ( 7 )

TOKYO —

Japan Airlines (JAL) has entered into bilateral agreements with American Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, all three members of the airline alliance oneworld, as well as with China Airlines, to begin offering codeshare flights from the new international terminal at Haneda, scheduled to open on Oct 21.

Including new codeshare flights with American to 6 destinations in the United States via San Francisco and with Air France to 14 cities in Europe via Paris, JAL is set to expand its international network from Haneda to offer customers a wider range of travel choices and more convenience.

There will be 13 daily JAL-operated flights on 10 international routes out of Haneda from Oct 31. Additionally, JAL’s international network springing from the newest terminal will cover eleven destinations when it places its JL indicator on American’s new daily New York flight come January 2011. JAL will also market Cathay Pacific’s twice daily flights to Hong Kong and China Airlines’ twice daily flights to Taipei (Songshan).

Together with an increase in the number of flights on the Haneda=Seoul (Gimpo) and Haneda=Shanghai (Hongqiao) routes operated by existing codeshare partners Korean Air and China Eastern respectively, JAL will soon offer its customers up to 22 daily flights a day from Haneda, reaching out to 11 cities around the world.

Furthermore, as part of its codeshare agreement with American Airlines, JAL customers can connect easily to 6 destinations in the United States namely Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, New York, and Honolulu from JAL’s Haneda-San Francisco flight.

Customers bound for Europe can also enjoy the convenience of traveling through Haneda airport, with JAL’s daily flight to Paris - the only Europe-bound flight from the new terminal. Under an expanded agreement with long-term bilateral partner Air France, passengers can connect with ease from JAL’s Haneda-Paris flight to Marseilles and Toulouse - new destinations on JAL’s network map, as well as 12 other European cities of Stockholm, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Lyon, Nice, Munich, Berlin, Prague, Warsaw and Istanbul. Customers will be able to arrive in most of the local cities in France, Germany, Spain or North Europe early in the day just before noon. JAL will continue to operate a daily flight from Narita Airport to Paris, where customers can also connect on existing codeshare flights with Air France to key points around Europe.

Information on reservations and ticket sales of codeshare flights with Cathay Pacific will be advised at a later time, while bookings and ticket purchase for other new codeshare flights will begin from Oct 1.