For the forth year, JAL will support the "Inner Mongolia Greening Project Against Desertification" organized by OISCA International through its "JAL Miles for Eco" mileage drive. Between June 1 2009 and July 31 2009, JMB members can donate their mileage in units of 10,000 miles. JAL will contribute 1 yen per mile donated by its members. JMB Japan

JAL has updated its site to include the June meal menu selection for its international flights. Once again this is a Japanese only feature but if you look at the URL in the result page, it's not that hard to change the departure and arrival area to your airport codes. The hardest part is to translate the Japanese

JAL is running a promotion with Hertz. JMB members can earn triple miles for rentals booked through Hertz website and double miles if they book through Hertz hotline. Two consecutive days of rental is required to qualify for the campaign. Offer ends on March 31, 2010. Refer to JAL website for details.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary of servicing Los Angeles, JAL is offering a 50% bonus miles campaign for its American Region members. To qualify for the campaign, simply register for the campaign and fly on JL061/062 between May 29, 2009 and August 31, 2009 on fare eligible for mileage accumulation. For details, you can refer to the campaign

JAL and Mitsui & Co., Ltd have met an agreement to form a logistics partnership in which each company will compliment each other with their respective strengths (air vs. sea). This will create a comprehensive and seamless one-stop solution to better meet customers' needs.

Update: added links to sample meal pictures JAL has developed a special allergy-free menu with Tsuji Inc. Starting May 27, passengers can call JAL reservation to reserve for the special allergy-free menu, however 96-hour advance notice is required. Looks like Y and J class will share the same menu (if google translates it right). You can refer to

Japan has adopted a new policy to fight against the AH1N1 outbreak. They stopped doing onboard passengers inspections for flights from North America except when there is advance notice of passengers onboard are suffering fevers and have flu-like symptoms. This should reduce the chance of passengers missing their connecting flights (the inspection took 3 hours to complete when

JAL has just enhanced the JAL Map Tokyo with the addition of Yokohama and improved detail for 5 areas nicluding Harajuku, Shibuya, Shijuku, etc. Tripadvisor reviews are also available on some of the hotels. You can try it out here. Source: JAL

JAL will relocate from Terminal 2F to Terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport in Paris from June 17, 2009. According to the press release, the latest facilities will provide great comfort and convenience to the passengers. Also, there will be a larger common lounge with business center, showers, and Wi-Fi connections. You can see map and

JAL first introduced their first domestic first class back in Dec 1 2007. Then they rolled out the domestic F class to the HND-SPK route in June 2008. To celebrate the first anniversary, first class passengers flying the HND-SPK route in June 2009 will receive special gifts from JAL, which includes a not for sale JAL domestic first

With the recent H1N1 outbreak in Japan, airlines are seeing increase in international passenger cancellations and drop in forward booking (which is a more serious problem). Apparently ANA is seeing roughly 150 cancellations per day. Even though JAL hasn't released any figures, I wouldn't be surprised if they have more cancellations than ANA. After all they have a

This is an old video from 1998. Once in a while I would go to youtube to watch this video. You can see a JAL Cargo plane did a crosswind landing at the old HKG in the video. Honestly, I was kind of shocked the first time I saw this and thought the plane is going to crash

I came across this video on youtube last night. A passenger on JL061 recorded the cabin attendants working at the galley which looks kind of creepy. Not sure if he really got the approval from all of the CA like he said he did in the video description. Watching the video makes me miss flying on JAL even

JAL first announced the temporary frequency reduction of HND-HKG route between March and May back in Feb 28 2009. Despite the swine flu (yes I am still calling it by the old name LOL) which hit the Hong Kong tourist industry really hard, JAL is going to resume daily operation on this route according to the original plan

Ha! This is the flight I usually take when I do my LAX-NRT-HKG roundtrips. Even though the investigation is still ongoing, I believe JAL has nothing to do with this. The luggage got sucked into the engine (you can see that in the video) while the plane is being towed onto the taxiway. Basically the pilot had NO