Japan Air Reduces Overseas Flights as Travel Falls on Quake
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Japan Airlines Corp., the nation’s flag carrier, slashed flights to China, South Korea and Hawaii after an earthquake and nuclear crisis caused a 25 percent drop in its international passenger numbers.
The cuts, mainly affecting Tokyo Narita Airport services, will run from April 6 to about April 27, the carrier said in an e-mailed statement today. Skymark Airlines Inc., Japan’s largest low-cost carrier, will halt flights at Ibaraki airport, northeast of Tokyo, for five days from March 30 to wash plane engines as a precaution, spokesman Yusuke Tanaka said by phone.