*Charter flights from Taiwan remarkably increased in FY2004

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport recently reported that the number of international charter flights through FY2004 was largely up 43.4% to 5,904 flights, compared with a year ago. The total number was classified into 1,370 flights by Japanese airlines (9.6% more than a year ago) and 4,534 flights by foreign airlines (58.2% more than a year ago).

This Week Contents
Headline
*Charter flights from Taiwan remarkably increased in FY2004
Airline
*Daytime Haneda-Kimpo charters were preferred by individual passengers
*Domestic air traffic slightly shrunk for FY2004
*ANA opens Centrair-Shanghai and increases Narita-Guangzhou
*ANA begins code-sharing flights with LOT
*JAL air transport result for February 2005
Industry
*KHI delivers a BK117C-2 to Korea for firefighting
*Fifty-three YS-11s are still in service worldwide

*Cockpit is suspended this week due to the editing matter.