JAL launches Boeing 'cockpit' hotel room to tap your inner pilot

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/>