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ANA NEO, a virtual travel platform development company of ANA Group, has raised 4.5 billion JPY in total to develop a Metaverse travel ‘SKY WHALE.'

ANA Trading has established a network of digital signage advertisement or digital out of home (DOOH) in six domestic airports to operate ‘TRAVEL MEDIA Airport Dynamic Ad Vision,’ the next generation advertising service.

ANA Holdings unveiled its new middle-range international airline ‘Air Japan’ as a hybrid airline between full service carrier and low cost carrier, aiming to begin its Narita-based services on the Asia and Oceania network in the latter half o FY2023.

JGC Holdings Corporation, REVO International, ANA and JAL, as leader companies, launched ‘ACT FOR SKY,’ a corporate group to aim to commercialize Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in Japan to establish a domestic supply chain for SAF from material purchase and manufacture to supply.

ANA has shifted the Europe flight route over Russia to a route over central Asia since March 4 for a safety reason, extending flight hours to 15 hours and 30 minutes from Narita to Brussels.

ANA X, a ANA Group company, has started a trial for multi-habitation subscription service, which offers ‘living in a luxury hotel for a short period’ on a monthly or weekly base. 42 luxury hotels nationwide are available for the service.

ANA Holdings signed a partnership agreement with U.S.-based Joby Aviation for the future ‘Air Taxi’ service in Japan, joined by Toyota Motor for development of ground-based transportation.

ANA has just begun receiving required COVID-19 certifications and other documents for its ANA Travel Ready service on 20 flights on 19 routes in total from Tokyo Haneda and Tokyo Narita to the U.S., Europe and China.

ANA Holdings resulted in the first operating income in the last eight quarters, posting operating income of 100 million JPY for the Q3 of FY2021, boosted by domestic passenger flights and international cargos.

ANA has begun receiving applications for ‘SAF Flight Initiative' for corporate partners to help them reduce CO2 practically for their business trips, which surly contributes to promote their ESG managements.

ANA increased its domestic flight bookings by 12.3% year on year to 1,081,252 for 2021/22 New Year holiday period, and JAL up 64.8% year on year to 978,693.

ANA Holdings has revised downward its FY2021 (April 2021 to March 2022) financial forecast to net loss of 100 billion JPY from originally expected net profit of 3.5 billion JPY.

ANA and JAL drew up a joint report ‘Toward Virtually Zero CO2 Emissions from Air Transport in 2050’ toward a joint effort to expand awareness and understanding of Sustainable Air Fuel (SAF) in Japan.

ANA Group and JAL Group launched campaigns to encourage fully-vaccinated travelers or travelers with negative certificates to travel in Japan, following complete lifting of declaration of a state of emergency.

ANA has started selling a 3-days/2-nights tour for Miyakojima with A380 ‘FLYING HONU,’ which is usually operated for the Honolulu flights. The tour will be performed on October 30 this year.

ANA Holdings successfully reduced net loss to 51.1 billion JPY for the Q1 of FY2021 (April to June 2021) from 106.8 billion JPY a year ago. Operating revenue was up 63.6% year on year to 198.9 billion JPY, propped by an increase in international cargo revenue from 25.4 billion JPY to 66 billion JPY.

ANA and Peach Aviation, an ANA subsidiary LCC, will begin code-shared flights on Paech’s operating domestic Narita and Chubu (Nagoya) routes in late August 2021.

Nine out of the top 10 receiving the subsides for employment adjustment are an airline and tourism-related companies. Top is ANA with 43.7 billion JPY, followed by Oriental Land operating Tokyo Disneyland.

ANA began testing IATA Travel Pass on the Haneda-New York and Haneda-Honolulu, joined by volunteer passengers, on May 24, expecting that the digital health accreditation app will be a trump card for restart of international travel.

ANA will establish a new company ‘ANA NEO’ to develop and operate a virtual travel platform ‘SKY WHALE,' which consists of ‘Sky Park,’ ‘Sky Mall’ and Sky Village’ services, taking advantage of avatar robot ‘newme’ developed by ANA Group venture company avatatin.