J-AIR's Embraer 170 aircraft with COP10 livery, registration JA217J (Source: JAL Press Release)

In case you have missed this, Japan Airlines (JAL) has added the COP10 logo to its Eco-Jet since June 13 2010. This is to show JAL's support to the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be held in Aichi, Nagoya in October and to raise awareness for the event and its motto of “Life in Harmony, into the future". Now JAL has decided to add the COP10 logo on more planes.

Japan Airlines (JAL) and Finnair announced they will expand their existing codeshare agreement to cover 7 additional routes. Starting from August 1 2010, JAL will start placing its JL code on Finnair's flights between Helsinki and 7 European cities: Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Brussels, Warsaw and Gothenburg. With these latest additions, JAL's European network now covers 36 destinations! JAL and Finnair's agreement now covers 13 destinations on 15 routes. Reservations on these new codeshare flights starts tomorrow. Below are the schedules

On my inbound flights, I noticed some changes to the MAGIC-III system. It now plays a short commercial before SOME of the on-demand movie contents. This is probably a new way for Japan Airlines (JAL) to generate some extra revenue. This happens in both economy and business class! (At first I thought this is only for economy class) To be honest, it is a bit annoying but I can live with that. Below are the videos showing how it looks like...

First post after my loooooooooong break. I am still trying to recover from my trip and get back to my normal life. To be honest I miss flying on Japan Airlines (JAL) already. It will take me a while to get use to NOT flying on JAL every week. Yup, that's what I did last month - spent 42 hours on JAL LOL (Consider that as my JAL intensive training course :P) The flights are still as good as before. And man I love JAL Global Club, the JGC perks have saved me so much time during my trip.

Now the "bad" news part...As some of you might have noticed, I haven't been updating the blog and my twitter as often as before. It is quite a demanding job to do all these by myself and have a normal life...It surprised me that I have actually run this blog for more than a year (I didn't think it will last this long). I still intend to continue running this blog but I am trying to find a balance between this and other things...So (at least until I got this "other thing" done) I probably wouldn't be updating the blog as often as before. For more updated news, you should follow me on twitter (which I am trying to keep that up-to-date). At least that's my current plan. But who knows, my JAL-OCD might make me write a post once I read something about JAL LOL

And hey, if you want to help me out to update this blog, I am more than happy to create an account for you and rename the blog to something else :P

Japan Airlines (JAL) has released its Haneda international flight schedules today. Ticket sales starts tomorrow. You can see the official press release on JAL website. One thing to note is JAL is dropping First Class on SFO (JL001/002) (which my little birdie told me months ago, thanks! You know who you are :) JAL has a special page for the new Haneda international schedule which is in Japanese only (as expected)

I am on vacation right now (yes, I have been on vacation for a while :P) and will resume regular posting in July.