Japan Airlines is giving aviation fans a taste of flying a passenger plane with a hotel room designed to look like the cockpit of a Boeing 767-300. The JAL Cockpit Room opened to guests at the Haneda Excel Hotel Tokyu last month. Located on the fourth floor, it overlooks the runway at Haneda Airport. Two genuine pilot seats and a reproduction of a cockpit panel were installed by the room's window, so guests can feel as though they are looking out of a real plane cockpit. JAL flight crew members were involved in the room's design to deliver a more realistic experience. "We want guests to experience something they can't in their everyday lives," said a JAL representative. The room starts at 35,300 yen ($230) per night for two guests. Previously, JAL collaborated on the "Wing Room" at the Tokyo Bay Tokyu Hotel that recreates cabin seating on the airline's passenger jet. The room opened in 2022 and last year the economy-class seats were upgraded to first-class seats. This is the first time the Haneda Excel Hotel will recreate a cockpit for a room. The instrument panels used by the pilots are recycled from discarded parts. Besides using the cockpit room to create new fans, the company is looking for other ways to bring people closer to airplanes. In 2021, a JAL subsidiary won approval from the government manufacture and sell products in Haneda airport. One item for sale are bags made from onboard life vests.<br/>
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Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will be rerouting flights between Kuala Lumpur and London to avoid Iranian airspace amid fears of attacks in the Middle East. "We are rerouting and avoiding Iranian airspace,” the national carrier told Bernama. MAS, Air India, Australian airline Qantas as well as German airline Lufthansa were among the first airlines to reroute flights temporarily due to fears that Iran would strike at Israel. According to international news reports, it is understood that Israel is preparing itself for a direct attack from Iran within days or even hours. As for AirAsia, the budget carrier does not use the Iranian airspace for its flights at the moment.<br/>
Qantas has been forced to pause its non-stop flights from Perth to London to avoid Iranian airspace amid fears Tehran is planning an imminent attack on Israel. As the world braces for a potential flare up in the region, the airline’s Perth to London flights will instead operate via a stop in Singapore for the foreseeable future. The roughly 17-and-a-half hour flight to London’s Heathrow airport – the only non-stop regularly scheduled commercial flights between Australia and the United Kingdom – are only achievable on the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with a route over Iranian airspace. A Qantas spokesperson confirmed the non-stop flights from Perth were operating to a modified route due to concerns about Iranian airspace. “We’re temporarily adjusting the flight paths for our flights between Perth and London due to the situation in parts of the Middle East,” the spokesperson said. “We’ll reach out to customers directly if there’s any change to their booking.”<br/>