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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.