AirAsia Japan

This article covers AirAsia Japan, the airline founded in 2014. The airline Vanilla Air also had this name in the past.

AirAsia Japan KK エ ア ア ジ ア ・ ジ ャ パ ン 株式会社
IATA code :	DJ
ICAO code :	WAJ
Call sign :	WING ASIA
Founding:	2014
Seat:	Tokoname , Aichi Prefecture , Japan
Home airport :	Chūbu
Company form:	KK
Management:	Shū Hata (President and CEO )
Number of employees:	240 (as of September 1, 2017)
Fleet size:	3
Aims:	National and international
Website:	airasia.com

AirAsia Japan KK ( Japanese エ ア ア ジ ア ・ ジ ャ パ ン 株式会社 Ea Ajia Japan Kabushiki-gaisha ) is a Japanese low-cost airline based in Tokoname and based at Chūbu Airport . AirAsia Japan is owned by AirAsia (33%), Alpen (18%), Noevir Holdings (18%), Rakuten (18%) and FinTech Global Incorporated (13%).

history

After the Malaysian low-cost airline AirAsia withdrew in June 2013 from a joint venture called "AirAsia Japan" founded in August 2011 with All Nippon Airways ( ANA for short ), the company was taken over by ANA and renamed Vanilla Air .

On February 14, 2014 AirAsia announced that it would start a second attempt in the Japanese market with new partners. For this purpose, on July 1, 2014, another airline called "AirAsia Japan" was founded. She received the Air Operator Certificate from the Japanese Ministry of Transport on October 6, 2015; eight days later she took delivery of her first Airbus A320-200 .

On October 29, 2017, flight operations began on the Chūbu- New-Chitose route about two years later than planned .

Destinations

AirAsia Japan serves New Chitose , Sendai and Taiwan Taoyuan airports from its base at Chūbu Airport .

fleet

As of March 2020, the AirAsia Japan fleet consists of three aircraft with an average age of 3.3 years:

Aircraft type	Aircraft registration	Remarks	Seats
Airbus A320-200	JA01DJ	with Sharklets equipped	180
	JA02DJ
	JA03DJ		186

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : AirAsia Japan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• AirAsia Japan website (Japanese)
• Photos of AirAsia Japan on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} MLIT : 航空 運送 事業 の 許可 に つ い て (Japanese), accessed October 29, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} airasia.com - 安全 報告 書 2016 年度 (Japanese), accessed October 29, 2017
3. ↑ airasia.com - 会 社 概要 (Japanese), accessed October 29, 2017
4. ↑ エ ア ア ジ ア ・ ジ ャ パ ン 、 2016 年 4 月 に 就 航 - 中部 を 拠 点 に 3 路線 同時 開設 . In: Mynavi News . October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2017 (Japanese). 
5. ↑ AirAsia Japan Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .