JL may stop all international flights

[HUGE AL]

AA Ticketing said JL001/002 will ax F and route to HND.

They are also running more flights into SHA and less to PVG.

[Pinkfloyd]

So all is well for now... Hopefully they won't go tits up in the near future...

[manray_yvr]

Japan Airlines: Important company information

19 January 2010

To all our valued customers,

This is to confirm that Japan Airlines is now receiving
the support of the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan.
And to speed up the revitalization, JAL has filed for protection
at the Tokyo District Court under Japan's Corporate Reconstruction Law.
As a result of these actions, JAL has secured the funding needed to
maintain
uninterrupted business operations and to meet the debt service
obligations going forward. In addition, all JAL frequent flyer programs
remain fully in effect.


JAL Group airline companies will continue to provide safe, reliable
air travel services to customers worldwide. Existing JAL Group carrier
tickets and reservations,including those for codeshare flights and
connecting flights operated by other carriers,remain valid and in
effect, and new reservations are being accepted and processed normally.
Complimentary coupons issued to shareholders are valid until the
original expiry dates and can be used as before.

JAL Mileage Bank services remain unchanged, and customer mileage
credits remain fully valid.
Mileage can continue to be accumulated or redeemed for awards as in
the past,
and previously redeemed awards retain their full value.
JAL Mileage Bank services will also continue to be offered to all
JMB members and JALCARD holders.

JALCARD, JALPAK, JALTOURS, JAL HOTELS and other group companies
remain unaffected by recent events and are fully operational.

We would like to express our deepest apologies for the worry caused by
the financial situation of JAL and seek your continued patronage and
support of JAL and the JAL group companies.


Sincerely yours,

Japan Airlines

[sumitsan]

JL files for bankruptcy

Maybe old news by now, but just read it:

http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/ne...entid=23283345

[Kiwi]

Not formal with me. Was it something I said?

[phaleesy]

Had the most stuffy JL stewardess who asked the person next to me in no uncertain terms to return the standard white JL pen to her after she was done.

"After you finished............" *points to name badge*.. "you return the pen to me..... OK?"

And waited like a patient mother for a disobedient child (pax) to acknowledge.

Stuffy, that's it! I've been trying so hard to think what makes me not like JAL. It is stuffy and stodgy. The FAs seem to tiptoe around the difficult passengers and are somewhat stiff and formal with the rest. I felt like I was a naughty schoolgirl and I had to remain silent in my seat.

[LukeGT]

jhm, IIRC and they didn't changed, when CX asked you to fill a survey, the policy is to gift you the pen as form of compensation for the time you spent to let them know what you think.

[jhm]

return the standard white JL pen

Given the deep financial doo doo which JL is in, every little bit helps!

I've had the opposite. After completing yet another CX pax survey (presumably only given out to shiny happy people), I tried to return the cheap plastic pen but was told to keep it as it's mine. Oh, okay...

[Kyo]

Had the most stuffy JL stewardess who asked the person next to me in no uncertain terms to return the standard white JL pen to her after she was done.

"After you finished............" *points to name badge*.. "you return the pen to me..... OK?"

And waited like a patient mother for a disobedient child (pax) to acknowledge.

Subsequently she disappeared somewhere else on the airplane and never came to that row in the aisle again. The pax was visibly a little perturbed and ultimately handed back the pen to another stewardess and told them it was for that particular stewardess.

Most unusual and I hope tonight's JL722 back will be a good one (my last JL SIN-KUL-SIN flight before this route gets canned, if that still goes ahead)

[Kiwi]

Hmmmm ... I flew JL last week and again this morning - both flights were excellent (as per my experience with them in the past) and there were plenty of smiles from the FAs! Breakfast included some salmon which the menu says was delivered from Tsukiji.

Great crew too on my 3 JL flights last week (see trip report).

They are now looking at filling for bankruptcy on the 19/1/2009 (JST). Looks to be a hybrid restructuring and "made in Japan solution". The last group to give the OK is the pensioners, and they vote on the 12th. They estimate it will take at the outside 3 years to work through all of JL's problems.

[jhm]

Can't be too auspicious for business if the FAs persist in wearing an expression befitting one's attendance at a wake!

Hmmmm ... I flew JL last week and again this morning - both flights were excellent (as per my experience with them in the past) and there were plenty of smiles from the FAs! Breakfast included some salmon which the menu says was delivered from Tsukiji.

OZ were excellent just now - the ssambab for lunch was delicious and fun to assemble myself (spooning some rice, beef bulgogi and bean paste on a pile of leaves and then wrapping each up).

Looking forward to CX next for some Chinese dinner and then finally today, BA for a bed!

Japanese government has now doubled JAL's credit line.

Not really......the Developement Bank Of Japan (which is on the hook for other loans and loan guarantees to JL throughout the years) has said they will consider the governments request to increase a loan from 1 to 2 billion. That as JL has already used up over half the 1 billion they received in the summer. They still continue to lose buckets of cash. So it won't be 1+2 billion=3 billion....it might just be 2 billion. They will have to secure first pensioners OK for a trimming of their pensions of not less than 1/3 ! JL has been run so poorly for so many years it is not really surprising !

This is just a first step in a very big restructure....

[phaleesy]

Can't be too auspicious for business if the FAs persist in wearing an expression befitting one's attendance at a wake!

[kelvgoh]

Japanese government has now doubled JAL's credit line.