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Yearly summary
As 2016 come to its end and 2017 start, we Yosoro Air have just added 4 planes to
our fleet, bringing the total number of planes in our fleet to 22. With these new
planes, especially the smaller ATR42, we can now inagurate a few aditional routes
and connect extra destinations to our route network. With our ATRs, Superjets, as
well as Boeing 737s, we are able to serve a wide variety of destinations across the
entire Japan as well as a few overseas destinations. In the mean time, some
service adjustments have also been taken place.
Let’s review the current service providing by Yosoro Air:
==Kansai - Kanto Express Link==
Itami - Haneda 4x daily + 2x weekly
Itami - Narita 13x daily + 4x weekly
Itami - Ibaraki 3x weekly
Kansai - Narita 5x daily + 3x weekly
Kobe - Narita 1x daily
With 173 flights connecting the two most important economic center in Japan,
we are currently providing over 20000 seats in both directions every weeks,
travellers can fly between the two cities at anytime they want without restriction,
freeing up restrictions and injecting dynamics into economy of the country. We
will continue to expand the link by providing more flights into Haneda whenever
slots are available. We estiamted that the capacity we are contributing make up
only 15% of the market and the entire market is still underserved, thus we expect
a lot of growth oppoturnity in these route.
==Services connecting Osaka, Itami==
===Hokkaido===
Sapporo Chitose 15x weekly
Asahikawa 10x weekly
Hakodate 8x weekly
Sapporo Okadama 1x daily
Wakkanai 1x daily
Kushiro 1x daily
Memanbetsu 2x weekly
With an average of 6 flights per day, we have connected some of the most major
airports in Hokkaido into our hub. In the coming few weeks, we will be launching
new service to allow eastern hokkaido residents to be able to mroe conveniently
use our service.
===Tohoku===
Sendai 15x weekly
Aomori 2x daily
Misawa 1x daily
Shonai 5x weekly
Akita 3x weekly
The Tohoku area is an area with great oppoturnity andyet not well served by our
airline - recently one of our major competitor have started a new subsidiary and
filled some of the void. We will use all the available resources to improve our
coverage and service performance in the region, so that customers will want to
travel with us to all of the Tohoku. Measures being considered and are
commencing include: New destinations, Daily services, Refitting cabin into more
spacious version with more comfortable seats, Using jets instead of props to
provide faster and more quiet travel experience, Improved meal options, as well
as a few intra-region flights that would supplement our regional coverage.
===Chubu===
Nagoya Chubu 18x weekly
Matsumoto 1x daily
Nanki Shirahama 1x daily
Komatsu 6x weekly
Nagoya Komaki 3x weekly
Shizuoka 3x weekly
We are planning to strengthen these links to daily service.
===Chugoku===
Yonago 1x daily
Izumo 3x weekly
Ube 3x weekly
Okayama 2x weekly
Tottori 2x weekly
Iwakuni 2x weekly
Kobe 1x weekly
Many Chugoku destinations have been added to our route network in our latest
expansion. Our current aim is to improve service frequency.
===Shikoku===
Kochi 8x weekly
Tokushima 5x weekly
Takamatsu 5x weekly
Matsuyama 2x weekly
Plans to upgrade all services in the region to daily frequency have also been
proposed and is currently under investigation.
===Kyushu===
Fukuoka 36x weekly
Kagoshima 30x weekly
Kitakyushu 1x daily
Saga 1x daily
Nagasaki 3x weekly
Oita 2x weekly
Tsushima 2x weeekly
Kumamoto 1x weekly
Miyazaki 1x weekly
Flights between Itami and Kyushu are our company’s second most served market.
We will continue to expand our coverage and increase our product quality in the
area to seek for domination in the market. This is no easy task as the Kyushu-
based competitor is more ressourceful than our company.
===Ritou===
Okinawa 9x weekly
Miyakejima 1x daily
Yakushima 1x daily
Tanegashima 1x daily
Amami Oshima 1x daily
Miyakoshima 5x weekly
Ishigaki 3x weekly
Oki 3x weekly
Hachijojima 2x weekly
As we maintain vital links between these islands and Osaka, our route network
won’t be complete without them.
===South Korea===
Jeju 12x weekly
Seoul Gimpo 11x weekly
Seoul Incheon 1x daily
Busan 4x weekily
Cheongju City 1x weekly
Yangyang 1x weekly
If the experimental flight to Cheongju City turn out to be success, we might move
most of our capacity serving China towards regional cities in South Korea instead.
===China===
Shenyang 5x weekly
Changchun 4x weekily
Harbin 3x weekly
Yanji 3x weekly
Dalian 2x weekly
Qingdao 2x weekly
Shanghai Hongqiao 2x weekly
Shanghai Pu Dong 2x weekly
Yantai 2x weekly
Zhoushan 2x weekly
Xiamen 1x weekly
Ningbo 1x weekly
Quite a few routes on the list struggle to make profit and thus might be dropped
in favor of more profitable routes. Some payload-restricted flights might be
upgauged to larger, more capable airplanes in near future.
===Taiwan===
Taipei Taoyuan 2x weekly
Taipei Sungshan 2x weekly
Makung 1x weekly
We are still exploring how to serve the market
===Philippines===
Manila 1x weekly
We will add a few more flights to Manila for basic frequency but as our capitals
would be tied into upgrading the fleet for local operations, service expansion in
the Philippines won’t be happening in near future.
===North Korea===
Pyongyang 3x weekly
As the only carrier connecting North Korea with Japan, we have recently
downgauged the flight to ATR42 but bumped up the frequency and testing the
flights’ performance, hoping to enhance the sustainability of the link between the
two countries.
===United States===
Saipan 2x weekly
The service is an alternative to previous okinawa-bound service which is made
viable after introduction of more capable equipment, and should provide better
connectivity to mariana to most of our route network.
===Russia===
Vladivostok 2x weekly
rs out previous Chitose-bound Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk service was unable to compete
with another airline on same route due to numerous factors including our limited
number of Chitose-bound flights, we have decided to move the flight into directly
serving Vladivostok from our hub OSaka to see how it perform.
===Others===
We are currently also investigating services to different Pacific Islands ranging
from Palau to New Caledonia to Hawaii for untouched market oppoturnity but
that would happen only after domenstic market coverage get improved.
==Services connecting Nagoya, Chubu==
Osaka Itami 18 weekly
Tokyo Narita 2x daily
Tokyo Haneda 9x weekly
Sendai 1x daily
Busan 1x daily
Jeju 2x weekly
Osaka Kansai 2x weekly
These are mostly point to point routes. As the market dynamic is changing, we
are considering moving destination of some of these flights back to Osaka to
improve our hub access, and possibly also allow us to connect more different
destinations
==Services connecting Okinawa==
Osaka Itami 9x weekly
Miyakoshima 3x weekly
Ishigaki 3x weekly
Jeju 1x weekly
These services connect Okinawa with nearby islands helped us to serve those
markets when we were not able to arrange direct flights from our hub to them. As
both Ishigaki and Miyakoshima are now covered by direct flights from Itami, we
are reconsidering the stragetic role of these flights
==Other point-to-point connections==
FUK-KOJ 10x weekly
AKJ-HKD 2x weekly
AXT-SDJ 2x weekly
CTS-SDJ 1x weekly
CTS-HKD 1x weekly
UKB-KIX 1x weekly
These ad hoc services that strengthened intraregional transportation might see
capacity reduction as we continue to overhaul our fleet with more spacious cabin
which would also mean fewer seats per flights.