Asian airlines fight to reassure passengers over virus response

Automation and hygiene stepped up to entice customers back to the skies

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JAL temporarily offered check-in kiosks which do not require touching at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. (Photo courtesy of JAL)

ERI SUGIURA and FRANCESCA REGALADO, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- After over half a year of managing All Nippon Airways' ground operations at Haneda Airport amid a pandemic, heightened sanitation and social distancing have become so routine for Mariko Kumita and her team that, as she says, "I am starting to feel like I'm forgetting what used to be normal."

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