Japan Airlines Co has been slow to resume suspended services as Japan's third recession in 10 years and safety worries deter many travelers from vacationing abroad.
Asia's largest carrier by sales said in January seat capacity for services to North America would fall 19 percent after the carrier reduced the number of flights to the region by a quarter. Still, the carrier said last month it will resume a third daily flight from Tokyo to Honolulu in May.
"In November, JAL traffic to Hawaii dropped by 61 percent year on year but by February 2002 it had picked up to the level of 75 percent" from the same period a year earlier, said spokesman Geoff Tudor. "March is almost back to normal."
Japan Airlines said after the attacks last year it introduced business class discounts of as much as 30 percent on transpacific and European routes. Japan Air's shares rose for the 10th day in the past 11 trading days, gaining 3.5 percent to Japanese yen 411 yesterday.
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