2013-01-19 — /travelprnews.com/ — Flights between Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) and Narita International Airport (NRT) in Tokyo have been cancelled through Monday, January 21.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) announced grounding its fleet of 17 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft (see ANA statements below) on January 15 (PST). Subsequently, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered the grounding of all U.S. registered Dreamliners on January 16.
ANA operates five-weekly NRT-SJC flights (there is no scheduled service on Tuesday and Thursday). The cancelled ANA service is Flight #1076 (NRT-SJC) with scheduled arrival of 10:10 a.m. and Flight #1075 (SJC-NRT) with scheduled departure of 11:45 a.m.
ANA is rebooking passengers on the cancelled SJC flights on both ANA and other airlines through other West Coast airports.
SJC is supportive of ANA’s decision as the safety of passengers is the airline’s first priority. The City of San José is confident about ANA’s commitment to both passengers and SJC. ANA passengers can check airline updates at fly-ana.com or 1-800-235-9262.
Information released by ANA on 1/18/13:
[Notice] Cancellation and Aircraft Type Change on Operation of Boeing 787
We sincerely appreciate your patronage of ANA service.
We also sincerely apologize to people affected, for the inconvenience and concern caused by this incident.
ANA has decided to suspend all flights operated by our Boeing 787 aircrafts till January 22.
Below, please click here for the information on the domestic and international flight operation of Boeing 787 till January 21 and that of international flights on January 22.
Domestic operations of the Boeing 787 on January 22, we will provide updates by 9:00 a.m.January 19.
Regarding operations of the Boeing 787 on and after January 23, updates will be provided by January 20.
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