Japan Airlines Based In Shinagawa Tokyo Declared Official Airline Of Tokyo Disneyland

Japan Airlines Corporation shortly called as JAL refers to the airline of Japan. It is regarded as the biggest airline operating in Asia. Japan Airlines has got its base in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan and carries out the operation of scheduled and non-scheduled services on international and domestic level.

The main bases are Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo as well as Narita International Airport. The number of employees working for the Japan Airlines as per the records of March 2007 are 17,925. The companies that work under the JAL brand are Japan Airlines International and Japan Airlines Domestic. Japan Airlines Domestic is entrusted with the main responsibility of managing the big network of intra-Japan flights.

On the other hand JAL International provides for both international as well as trunk domestic flights. The merger between Japan Airlines International and Japan Airlines Domestic into a single brand called as Japan Airlines International happened on October 1, 2006. JAL Corporation is comprised of seven small airlines that provides for the mainline JAL flights like Japan Air Commuter, Ryukyu Air Commuter, Japan Transocean Air, Hokkaido Air System to name a few of them.

Japan Airlines is also possessed with the biggest fleet of Boeing 747s nearly 74 in number. The JAL that carries out the flight to destination like Mexico City through Vancouver and Sao Paulo through New York City is regarded as one among the five Asian airlines that fly to Latin America.

The other four are Air China, Emirates Airline, Malaysia Airlines and Korean Air. JAL also has IATA's Operational Safety Audit in lieu of the safety practices adopted by it. Japan Airlines further purchased its first jet called as Douglas DC-8 in the year 1960. It also turned up with special flights for the Crown Prince of Japan as well as the Princess, for Pope John Paul II and for the Prime Ministers of Japan.

Japan Airlines went private in 1987 and the airlines namely All Nippon Airways and Japan Air System were allowed to enter into competition with JAL on domestic and international routes. Japan Airlines was declared as the official airline of Tokyo Disneyland by The Walt Disney Company in 1997. Japan Airlines