JAL MD-90 (JA8070) at Tokyo Haneda. Image by Kentaro IEMOTO@Tokyo

As announced before, Japan Airlines (JAL) will be retiring its MD-90 fleet today (March 30 2013 JST) after first introducing the plane to its fleet 17 years ago. The last scheduled flight will be JL1614 from Hiroshima (HIJ) to Tokyo Haneda (HND). It is scheduled to depart from HIJ at 19:40 and arrive HND at 20:55.

JAL Happiness Express - a special livery to celebrate Tokyo Disney Resort 30th anniversary. Image from Japan Airlines

[Update: Added links to the Aviation Wire report which you can see the plane up close and the JAL original seat rest cover and paper cup]

Yesterday I reported that Japan Airlines (JAL) has painted one of its domestic Boeing 777-200 with special Disney livery to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tokyo Disney Resort. Today JAL finally releases more details on this special livery dubbed "JAL Happiness Express" and held an event at Tokyo Haneda to officially unveil the plane.

JAL Happiness Express - a special livery to celebrate Tokyo Disney Resort 30th anniversary. Image form Japan Airlines

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Tokyo Disney Resort and it will kick off a series of celebrations in April. As the official airline of the Tokyo Disney Resort, Japan Airlines (JAL) is also part of the celebration :) JAL has painted a domestic Boeing 777-200 (registration JA8985) with a special livery featuring cartoon characters from Disney on the fuselage. Not much details other than pictures from Japanese aviation website FlyTeam can be found at this point. But I expect this to fly on domestic flights between Tokyo Handa (HND) and Osaka Itami (ITM), Sapporo New Chitose (CTS), Fukuoka (FUK) and Okinawa Naha (OKA).

Newly opened Sakura Lounge at Sapporo New Chitose. Image from Japan Airlines

[Update: JAL has moved up the rollout date once again. Latest date can be found in this post]

Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced today that it will move up the SKY SUITE 777 (SS7) rollout on the Tokyo Narita (NRT) - New York (JFK) route to May 7 2013, 2 days ahead of its originally planned. Initially JAL will only offer SS7 on alternate days, i.e. only odd-numbered days in May. As of right now, JAL still plans to make this a daily service from May 29 2013 (or May 30 if you count the first even-numbered day as the day that SS7 turns into daily service)

The SS7 offers improved cabin in all 4 classes with wider seat width and pitch in most classes. One of the most significant changes is the introduction of JAL SKY SUITE which JAL chose to install a modified version of an international First Class seats in its Business Class cabin. You can refer to this post for details of the improved service and here is also a virtual tour of the SS7.