All Nippon Airways

All Nippon Airways (全日本空輸株式会社, Zen Nippon Kūyu Kabushiki gaisha), also known as ANA or Zennikkū (全日空), is an airline of Japan operating scheduled domestic and international services. It is the largest airline in Japan by revenues and passenger numbers.

= History =

Incidents

 * 4 February 1969: Trident 7A JA8302 (c/n C929/1968), operating as Flight ANA60 from Sapporo, to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, crashed into the Pacific Ocean 7.5 miles from Haneda Airport. The last radio exchange with the aircraft was with Haneda ATC at 19:00 on long approach, before the aircraft fell from the sky, disintegrating on impact with the water, and sank. All 133 passengers and crew aboard died. The cause of the crash was never determined.


 * 30 July 1975: Trident 7D JA8329 (c/n C1412/1974), operating as Flight ANA58 from Sapporo to Tokyo, was destroyed in a mid-air collision with F-86 Sabre 92-7392 of the Japan Air Self-Defence Force. All 133 passengers and 7 crewmembers on the airliner were killed; the pilot of the fighter ejected safely.


 * 13 June 1991: Trident 7D JA8331 (c/n C1494/1975), operating a non-revenue positioning flight from Nagoya, Japan, to Tokyo, was written off after a gear-up landing. The crew failed to read out the landing procedure checklist, and forgot to lower the landing gear; when the ground proximity warning horn sounded, the circuit breaker was deliberately tripped to disable the horn.

ANA in British Columbia
ANA began service between Haneda Airport in Tokyo and Vancouver in 2014.

ANA's association with British Columbia, however, dates back to 1962, when it absorbed Fujita Airlines, thus acquiring the four BC-made DHBC-2 Heron 3B piston-engined airliners which had been purchased new by the latter company; in 1964 these were sold to JDA Japan Domestic Airlines.

ANA's first purchase of aircraft new from DHBC happened in 1968, with the delivery of the first DHBC-7 Trident 7A trijets for the airline. A total of eight were acquired between 1968 and 1970; one was lost in February 1969 in a disappearance that was never solved. Four were sold in 1980, two returning to BC to Awyr Cymru Newydd and two going to SAHSA of Honduras, and the remaining three were sold the following year to Avianca Colombia.

At the same time as the first Trident 7As arrived in Japan, the first Trident 7B, with a shorter range than the 7A but higher capacity, was delivered to ANA, with a total of 24 being delivered between 1968 and and 1975. Eight were sold in 1980 - four to Avianca Colombia and four to Inter-Dominion Air Lines of BC, but the 7Bs enjoyed a longer career with ANA than the 7As. One was damaged beyond repair on the ground in a storm in 1981 and one was sold to Nepal Airlines in 1984 and one to ACES Colombia in 1986, but the next bulk withdrawal wasn't until 1988, when four were sold to SAM Colombia and one each to Evergreen International Airlines and Express One of the United States; these latter two were converted to freighters. One went to Amerijet International of the USA in 1990, and four were sold the following year: a second to each of Nepal Airlines and Evergreen International, and three to ZAS Airline of Egypt. The last ANA Trident 7B soldiered on alone until 1993, when it was sold to AeroRepública of Colombia.

ANA bought four of the longer-ranged and improved Trident 7D, two each in 1974 and 1975, but these had a less than stellar career with ANA. Two were lost in accidents - one, less than a year after delivery, collided in mid-air with an F-86 fighter jet, killing all 140 people aboard, the other was lost in 1991 after a gear-up landing due to pilot error. Of the two survivors, one was sold in 1992 to MIAT Mongolian Airlines, whilst the second remained in service with ANA until 2002.

1979 saw the introduction of the Trident 8B, of which ANA bought 24 between that year and 1986, and the type enjoyed a long career with the airline, lasting well into the 21st century. Two of the oldest were sold to MIAT in 1994, followed by seven sold in 1996 - one to Air Slovakia and six to Avensa, and finally six were sold to Evergreen International in 2002. The remaining nine aircraft stayed with ANA until retirement, with the first three being withdrawn in 2007. One was retired in 2008 and four in 2009, with the last one, JA8432, being retired in February 2010, after 24 of reliable service.

Positive experiences with the Trident led ANA to become the first overseas buyer of the DHBC-9 Kehloke, with twelve Kehloke 1 being delivered between 1986 and 1991, and the airline also took options on 28 Kehloke 2 in 1992. However, the termination of the Kehloke programme in 1993 after the Boeing takeover of DHBC led to those options being converted to Boeing 737s. In 2003, ANA leased four Kehlokes to Hokkaido-based affiliate Air Do, using them, amongst other routes, on the service between Sapporo and Furukamap, Utari Mosir. The other eight Kehlokes were sold to Ural Airlines of Russia in 2007, and when the four leased to Air Do were returned in 2014, they were assigned to subsidiary ANA Wings; one of these was retired in 2016, whilst the other three remained in service until 2018. One, JA8460, is preserved at the ANA Technical School at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.

= Fleet =

Current

 * Airbus A320-200 - 1
 * Airbus A320neo - 11
 * Airbus A321-200 - 4
 * Airbus A321neo - 20, 6 more on order
 * Airbus A380-800 - 3
 * Boeing 737-800 - 39
 * Boeing 767-300BCF - 5, cargo
 * Boeing 767-300ER - 19
 * Boeing 767-300ERF - 4, cargo
 * Boeing 777-200 - 3
 * Boeing 777-200ER - 10
 * Boeing 777-300 - 5
 * Boeing 777-300ER - 15
 * Boeing 777-9 - 0, 20 on order, deliveries to commence in either 2022 or 2023
 * Boeing 777F - 2, cargo
 * Boeing 787-8 - 36, launch customer
 * Boeing 787-9 - 39, 9 more on order
 * Boeing 787-10 - 2, 12 more on order, option for 7 more
 * Mitsubishi SpaceJet M90 - 1, +14 on order, option for ten more,

Historic

 * Airbus A321-100 (1998–2008)
 * Boeing 737-200 (1969–1992)
 * Boeing 737-500 (2003–2020)
 * Boeing 737-700 (2005–2021)
 * Boeing 737-700ER (2007–2016)
 * Boeing 747-200B (1986–2005)
 * Boeing 747SR-100 (1974–2006)
 * Boeing 747-400 (1990–2011)
 * Boeing 747-400D (1992–2014)
 * Boeing 767-200 (1983–2004)
 * Boeing 767-300 (1988–2020)
 * Convair CV-440 (1959–1964)
 * De Havilland Dove (1953–1962) inherited from Nippon Helicopter and Aeroplane and Far East Airlines
 * De Havilland Heron (1954–1961) - inherited from Nippon Helicopter and Aeroplane
 * DHBC-2 Heron 3B - 4 (1962–1964), inherited from Fujita Airlines
 * DHBC-7 Trident 7A - 8 (1968–1981)
 * DHBC-7 Trident 7B - 24 (1968–1993)
 * DHBC-7 Trident 7D - 4 (1974–2002)
 * DHBC-7 Trident 8 - 24 (1979–2010)
 * DHBC-9A Kehloke 1 - 12 (1986–2007)
 * Douglas DC-3 (1955–1964) - inherited from Far East Airlines
 * Fokker F27 (1961–1973)
 * Handley Page Marathon (1954–1960) - inherited from Far East Airlines
 * Lockheed L-1011 Tristar (1974–1995) - purchased due to bribery by Lockheed
 * NAMC YS-11 (1965–1991)
 * Vickers Viscount (1961–1969)

BC-made aircraft
''Note: a green background indicates an aircraft in service, a yellow background indicates a retired aircraft, and a pink background indicates an aircraft lost in an accident.

= Routes = Entries with a green background indicates a destination in British Columbia. "Domestic" refers to services within Japan.


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