- the ANA Connection network expands to 8 domestic cities in Japan -

TOKYO August 22, 2006 - Commencing November 1 this year, the city of Naha in Okinawa, the southernmost of Japan’s islands, will be added to the ANA Connection network. ANA Connection is a service linking Tokyo’s international gateway, Narita Airport, to regional cities within the Japanese archipelago.

Okinawa airport in the city of Naha will be the eighth destination in this convenient service which allows passengers to connect simply and easily from domestic to international flights and vice-versa. In Tokyo, this would normally necessitate a change of airport via ground transportation. In particular, customers travelling to and from the West Coast of the United States from Okinawa will enjoy favourable connecting times, allowing a smooth transfer between flights in Narita’s New Terminal 1 South Wing.

Customers will also be able to take advantage of through check-in and through baggage. Those arriving in Narita with onward connections on ANA will have no more to do than drop their belongings onto a conveyor at the new baggage drop facility, after passing through immigration and customs, before proceeding to their domestic flight.

The daily flight between Tokyo and Okinawa will be flown using an Air Nippon (ANK) operated Boeing 737-700 aircraft, carrying 136 passengers in an all economy configuration.