Flights linking small cities in Japan get more people in the air

Passengers on Fukuoka-Matsumoto route jump sixfold in 10 years

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The number of passengers using flights between 56 regional airports, excluding major hubs such as Tokyo's Haneda Airport, rose by a third between 2008 and 2018.

HARUKI KITAGAWA and SAKI HAYASHI, Nikkei staff writers

NAGOYA/NAGANO, JAPAN -- Demand is surging for nonstop flights between smaller regional airports in Japan, as both businesspeople and domestic and foreign tourists look for better ways to get where they are going.

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