Musicians play the koto during the celebration at O’Hare of ANA’s new route to Haneda
CHICAGO, 2016-Nov-08 — /Travel PR News/ — All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest airline group, has launched nonstop service to a new route from Chicago to Haneda, Japan.
The new service, which started on October 30, will operate daily between Chicago O’Hare International Airport and Tokyo International Airport.
The current schedule, which runs from November 6 through March 11, 2017, is as follows – ANA flight NH111 departs O’Hare at 4:15 p.m. and arrives in Haneda at 8:30 p.m. the following day. ANA flight NH1112 departs Haneda at 10:50 a.m. and arrives in Chicago at 7:40 a.m.
“The new route to Haneda provides more options for travelers and helps to meet the Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s goal to increase travel and tourism to Chicago,” said Ginger S. Evans, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Aviation. “This new service to Japan is critical to economic development in Chicago and we are looking forward to bringing more passengers to our great city.”
The new route is part of an international expansion plan for ANA.
ANA has served Chicago O’Hare with one daily flight to Tokyo-Narita since October 2006, and added a second daily flight to Narita in 2013
About ANA
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is the eighth largest airline in the world by revenues (2011) and the largest in Japan by passenger numbers (2012). Founded in 1952, ANA flies today to 31 international destinations and 50 domestic cities with a fleet of 232 aircraft serving a network of 175 routes.
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Source: Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA)