Boston Logan International Airport will achieve a long-sought goal of nonstop service to Asia when Japan Airlines starts flying from Boston to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport in April 2012,with four flights a week and the frequency will increase to once daily on June 1, 2012.
JAL will become the only carrier offering nonstop service from Boston to Asia, but American Airlines and JAL have a joint business agreement and both airlines will sell tickets on the flight, which is expected to be the first in JAL’s trans-Pacific network to use the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Boston is the largest U.S. market without nonstop Asian service and more than 380,000 passengers flew from Boston to Asia in 2010 and generated more than $350 million in ticket sales; the single largest market is Boston to Tokyo. The service will facilitate travel to and from cities throughout the New England region as well as add greater convenience for business and leisure travelers connecting to and from key Asian cities through JAL’s extensive international network at Narita.
JAL has begun discussions with JetBlue Airways to strengthen its US network by utilizing JetBlue’s Boston Logan network to provide JAL customers with smooth connections along the East Coast and Caribbean.
Boston Logan, 15 minutes from the intersection of Route 128 and I-90 and five minutes from downtown Boston, serves as the gateway to the New England region and offers nonstop service to 70 domestic and 32 international destinations and in 2010 handled 27.4 million passengers. Boston Logan is the Air Line Pilot Association’s Airport of the Year for 2008 because of its commitment to safety. Over the past decade, the airport spent $4.5 billion on a modernization program that includes new terminals, parking facilities, roadways and airport concessions, and has been transformed into a world-class 21st Century facility. The airport generates $7 billion in total economic impact each year.
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