Vanilla Air

This article is about Vanilla Air, founded in 2011 as AirAsia Japan . AirAsia Japan was founded in 2014.

Vanilla Air バ ニ ラ ・ エ ア
IATA code :	JW
ICAO code :	VNL
Call sign :	VANILLA
Founding:	2011 (as AirAsia Japan)
Operation stopped:	2019
Seat:	Narita , Japan
Turnstile :	Tokyo Narita
Home airport :	Tokyo Narita
Company form:	KK
IATA prefix code :	842
Management:	Shin'ichi Inoue ( CEO )
Number of employees:	759 (as of August 1, 2018)
Alliance :	Value Alliance
Fleet size:	15th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.vanilla-air.com
Vanilla Air バ ニ ラ ・ エ ア ceased operations in 2019. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Vanilla Air ( Japanese バ ニ ラ ・ エ ア 株式会社 , Banira Ea Kabushiki-gaisha ), originally AirAsia Japan , was a Japanese low-cost airline based in Narita and based at Tokyo Narita Airport . It was a subsidiary of ANA Holdings and a member of the Value Alliance aviation alliance . Flight operations ceased on October 26, 2019.

history

Vanilla Air was created on November 1, 2013 from the renaming of AirAsia Japan, after AirAsia withdrew from the joint venture with ANA Holdings , the parent company of All Nippon Airways , and the latter took over all shares . Regular flight operations started on December 20, 2013.

In March 2018, ANA announced that it would merge Vanilla Air and the Osaka- based other ANA subsidiary Peach Aviation by April 2020, whereby the “Vanilla Air” brand would disappear. This is done, among other things, in order to be able to position itself more effectively and uniformly in the Asian low-cost flight market. In the following months, the Vanilla Air routes were handed over to Peach Aviation one after the other. Vanilla Air's flight operations finally ceased on October 26, 2019 with the handover of the last remaining route Tokyo-Narita - Taiwan Taoyuan . The legal merger took place on November 1, 2019. 12 of the 15 Airbus A320-200s took over after the cessation of flight operations Peach Aviation, while the remaining three aircraft went to ANA.

Destinations

Vanilla Air served national destinations as well as cities in East Asia from its base at Tokyo Narita Airport .

fleet

As of October 2019, Vanilla Air's fleet consisted of eight aircraft with an average age of 4.6 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Airbus A320-200	15th	-	with Sharklets equipped	180

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Vanilla Air  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Vanilla Air website (Japanese, English, Chinese, Vietnamese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ vanilla-air.com - Corporate Profile (English), accessed on March 12, 2019
2. ↑ aero.de - Vanilla Air was retrieved from Air Asia Japan on November 12, 2013
3. ↑ ana.co.jp - Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air Unite Together to become the leading LCC in Asia , accessed June 22, 2018
4. ↑ corporate.flypeach.com - Peach と バ ニ ラ エ ア 統 合 完了 の ご 報告 (Japanese), accessed April 9, 2020
5. ↑ ^{a b} ANA 、 180 席 仕 様 の A320 型 機 を 来年 1 月 か ら 投入 へ バ ニ ラ 返 却 の 3 機 . Retrieved October 26, 2019 . 
6. ↑ vanilla-air.com - Route, Fare and Timetable (English), accessed on January 19, 2015
7. ↑ vanilla-air.com - Fleet and Seatmap (English), accessed on January 19, 2015