TOKYO (Kyodo) -- AirAsia Japan Co., a budget airline owned partly by
All Nippon Airways Co., said Wednesday it will start selling one-way tickets
on its website for 5 yen for 10,000 seats on three domestic routes in a
special campaign ahead of its inaugural flight scheduled for Aug.
1.
The promotional tickets are available for flights linking Narita
International Airport near Tokyo to Sapporo, Fukuoka and Naha in Okinawa
Prefecture. The Tokyo-Sapporo and Tokyo-Fukuoka flights will commence on Aug. 1, while the
Tokyo-Okinawa route will start on Aug. 3.
The special tickets will be sold for four days from Thursday to
Sunday for flights from Aug. 28 to Nov. 28.
AirAsia Japan said the minimum regular fare for the Tokyo-Sapporo and
Tokyo-Fukuoka routes will be 4,580 yen and 5,180 yen, respectively. The
minimum fare for the Tokyo-Okinawa route will be 6,680 yen. Passengers will
be charged an additional 150 yen in commission,
the airline said.
AirAsia Japan President Kazuyuki Iwakata said the company plans to
commence services linking Narita with Incheon and Busan in South Korea, while
considering opening routes to Taiwan and China.
"We'd like to fly about 1 million people in the next one
year," Iwakata said at a news conference
in Tokyo.
Established last August, AirAsia Japan is owned 67 percent by ANA and
33 percent by Malaysia's AirAsia Bhd., the largest budget airline in Asia.
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VOCABULARY
1.
Campaign -
a series of actions intended to achieve a particular result relating to
politics or business, or a social improvement
2.
Inaugural
- the first in a planned series of similar events
3.
Commence -
to begin or to start something
4.
Commission
- an extra amount of money that is paid to a person or organization
according to the value of the goods they have sold or the services they have
provided
5.
Conference
- a large formal meeting where a lot of people discuss important matters
such as business, politics, or science, especially for several days
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