Hokkaido International Airlines

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Hokkaido International Airlines 北海道国際航空

IATA HD	ICAO ADO	Callsign Air Do
Founded		May 12, 1998
Hubs		Tokyo International Airport
Fleet size		5
Destinations		5 (4 flight lines)
Parent company		Corporate rehabilitation fund (96.07%)
Headquarters		Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan
Key people
Website: http://www.airdo.jp/

Hokkaido International Airlines (北海道国際航空株式会社, Hokkaidō Kokusai Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha^?), also known as Air Do (エア・ドゥ, Ea Du^?) is a Japanese low-cost airline. Based in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, it operates between Tokyo and cities in Hokkaidō. Its main base is Tokyo International Airport in Ōta, Tokyo ^[1].

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1996 and started operations in December 1998. The brainchild of a successful poultry farmer in Hokkaidō, it is owned by Mizuho Financial Group (96.07%) and individual investors (3.93%). It has 565 employees (at March 2007)^[1].

Air Do was one of Japan's first low-cost airlines. It originally competed with Japan's major domestic carriers (All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Japan Air System), who lowered their fares to Air Do's level without seriously compromising corporate profits. After two years of losses, the airline entered a code-sharing agreement with ANA, and now has the same general fare structure as the majors.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Destinations

Hokkaido International Airlines 767-300

Air Do operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations from Tokyo.^[2]

[edit] Fleet

The Air Do fleet consists of the following aircraft (at February 2008):

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-03-27, pp. 55-56.
^ AIR DO 北海道国際航空／時刻表のご案内／

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Low cost domestic airlines	ANA: (Air Japan · Air Next) · Air Do · JAL Express · Skymark Airlines · StarFlyer

Domestic airlines	JAL: (Hokkaido Air System · J-Air · Japan Air Commuter · Japan Transocean Air · Ryukyu Air Commuter ) ANA: (Air Central · Air Japan · Air Nippon · Air Nippon Network) · airtransse · Amakusa Airlines · Ibex Airlines · Kyokushin Air · New Central Airlines · Oriental Air Bridge · Skynet Asia Airways

International and domestic airlines	All Nippon Airways · JAL: (Japan Airlines · JALways)

Cargo airlines	ANA & JP Express · Galaxy Airlines · Nippon Cargo Airlines

Defunct airlines	see Defunct airlines of Japan