Spring Japan announced the opening of its Tokyo/Narita-Beijing/Capital route on August 1st. The service will be operated under a wet-lease contract with Japan Airlines (JAL), utilizing Spring Japan’s aircraft and crew, and will fly under the JAL flight number.
The route will be served by Boeing 737-800 aircraft, operating one flight per day. Flight JL8689 from Tokyo/Narita to Beijing/Capital will depart at 5:55 PM and arrive at 9:15 PM. The return flight, JL8680, will leave Beijing/Capital at 10:45 AM and arrive in Tokyo/Narita at 3:30 PM. Both Tokyo/Narita and Beijing/Capital will use Terminal 3.
The service will be offered as a code-share, available for booking under the Spring Japan flight number as well. Ancillary services will generally follow Spring Japan’s standards, but seat selection, checked baggage, and excess baggage fees will be complimentary for bookings made under the JAL flight number. However, reservations under the JAL flight number will, for the time being, be handled exclusively by Shanghai Spring International Travel Service.
Additionally, from August 1st, two more daily flights to the Tokyo/Narita-Shanghai/Pudong route will be added, also under the same wet-lease arrangement. This will complement the current single daily flight, making a triple daily service schedule.
Tickets for both the Tokyo/Narita-Beijing/Capital and Shanghai/Pudong routes have been on sale since July 23rd. Note that there will be a few days each month where flights will not operate due to aircraft maintenance.
Spring Japan, known as Spring Airlines Japan, was established in September 2012 and became a subsidiary of JAL in June 2021. It was rebranded to its current name in November of the same year. Based at Tokyo/Narita, Spring Japan currently operates two domestic routes to Sapporo/Chitose and Hiroshima, and four international routes to Shanghai/Pudong, Harbin, Tianjin, and Ningbo.
■Timetable JL8689/IJ17 Tokyo/Narita (17:55) to Beijing/Capital (21:15) / From August 1st JL8680/IJ18 Beijing/Capital (10:45) to Tokyo/Narita (15:30) / From August 1st
JL8695/IJ3 Tokyo/Narita (13:55) to Shanghai/Pudong (16:20) / From August 1st JL8799/IJ5 Tokyo/Narita (19:20) to Shanghai/Pudong (21:45) / From August 1st JL8696/IJ4 Shanghai/Pudong (17:35) to Tokyo/Narita (21:35) / From August 1st JL8790/IJ6 Shanghai/Pudong (10:10) to Tokyo/Narita (14:10) / From August 1st
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