July 7 (Bloomberg) -- All Nippon Airways Co., Japan’s largest domestic carrier, is reviewing four routes from Osaka’s Kansai airport due to a drop in demand.

No decisions about the future of the services to Kochi, Matsuyama, Kagoshima and Fukuoka have been made yet, Yuhei Suzuki, a spokesman, said by phone today. The Nikkei newspaper reported earlier that All Nippon would cancel three of the routes and reduce capacity on the other.

Japan Airlines Corp., the country’s largest international carrier, is also assessing its Kansai services as part of a network-wide route evaluation, spokesman Taro Namba said, declining to give more details. The carrier will cut services from Kansai to the Chinese cities of Dalian and Hangzhou, the Nikkei said.

All Nippon and Japan Air are cutting routes as the nation’s worst postwar recession slashes demand for travel. Kansai airport is predicting its first drop in summer flights in seven years as carriers reduce services.

To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Cooper in Tokyo at ccooper1@bloomberg.net; Kiyotaka Matsuda in Tokyo at kmatsuda@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: July 6, 2009 23:16 EDT