COVID forces Japan Airlines onto new flight path, president says

Akasaka predicts permanent downturn in business travel for flag carrier

"We have focused on business travelers taking mainly our international flights, but that demand will not come back to where it used to be," JAL President Yuji Akasaka told Nikkei Asia. (Photo by Manami Yamada)

ERI SUGIURA, Nikkei staff writer

October 5, 2020 15:05 JST

TOKYO -- Japan Airlines is to reduce its focus on international business travel to strengthen its low-cost network, its president has told Nikkei Asia, in a sign of how the coronavirus pandemic has shaken up one of the country's two main carriers.