Japan’s airlines cut domestic flights after emergency declaration
Major Japanese carriers have shrunk domestic schedules after the country entered a state of emergency to try and halt the spread of Covid-19. This applies to Tokyo, Osaka, and 5 other prefectures, and was effective April 8. It takes the form of a request rather than an order, but gives authorities more power to encourage people to stay home and businesses to close. JAL said April it 10 was stepping up cuts to its domestic network over the next couple of weeks. ANA said April 9 it was changing flight frequencies for certain cities, affecting a total of 1,523 flights serving 56 routes. A scan of the schedules indicates frequencies on ANA’s domestic routes affected are roughly halved. In a separate update Monday, ANA said it will extend cuts to most of its international services into the first 2 weeks of May. <br/>
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Japan’s airlines cut domestic flights after emergency declaration
Major Japanese carriers have shrunk domestic schedules after the country entered a state of emergency to try and halt the spread of Covid-19. This applies to Tokyo, Osaka, and 5 other prefectures, and was effective April 8. It takes the form of a request rather than an order, but gives authorities more power to encourage people to stay home and businesses to close. JAL said April it 10 was stepping up cuts to its domestic network over the next couple of weeks. ANA said April 9 it was changing flight frequencies for certain cities, affecting a total of 1,523 flights serving 56 routes. A scan of the schedules indicates frequencies on ANA’s domestic routes affected are roughly halved. In a separate update Monday, ANA said it will extend cuts to most of its international services into the first 2 weeks of May. <br/>
