Japan Airlines has issued a press release regarding the traffic results of the 2010 New Year vacation period. There is a 8.9% improvement on international flight loads but a 2.1% decrease on the domestic one.

Japan Airlines Hong Kong is having a special campaign for the 5th anniversary of the JAL Hang Seng Card, the credit card used for earning JMB miles in Hong Kong.

What's wrong with the Sapporo airport. Two incidents in two days LOL. This one actually happened before the JL3302 bird strike. Japan Airlines flight 545 from Haneda to Sapporo slides off the taxiway on January 2 2010 but no one was injured.

According to the report on 47news (in Japanese), Japan Airlines is getting less slots than ANA at the new Haneda runway.

According to Reuters, Japan Airlines has received 2/3 of employees' approval for the proposed pension cut. But only 3000 retired employees has agreed to the cut so far, with 6000 remaining retirees undecided. So JAL will need 3000 more retireed employees' approval. Without the pension cut, JAL won't be able to redeuce the 331 billion yen pension shortfall, and therefore might not get the ETIC help. The deadline for retirees to return their vote is January 12 2010, so there's around a week left. One hurdle cleared, but one more to go.