All Nippon Airways (ANA) has launched its first flight from Tokyo/Haneda to Milan, with the inaugural flight from Milan departing on December 3rd in the morning.
The first flight departing Tokyo/Haneda, flight NH207, carried 203 passengers and 12 crew members, totaling 215 onboard. It left from Spot 73 at 1:10 AM and took off at 1:23 AM. The flight landed in Milan at 7:51 AM on the same day and arrived at Spot 58 at 8:00 AM.
A ceremony held at the departure gate of Milan Malpensa Airport featured greetings from SEA Airport Authority’s COO Luigi Battuello, ANA’s President Shinichi Inoue, the Deputy Governor of Lombardy, Italy, Raffaele Cattaneo, and the Ambassador of Japan in Italy, Tetsu Suzuki. The event was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting and cake-cutting ceremony to commemorate the inaugural flight.
The NH208 flight from Milan carried 170 passengers and 12 crew members, totaling 182 onboard. It departed from Spot 58 at 11:12 AM and took off at 11:29 AM after a delay due to baggage checks. Several ‘touch and go’ passengers from the inaugural flight from Tokyo/Haneda also joined this return flight.
The Tokyo/Haneda to Milan route is the first of three new routes to Europe being launched in the winter schedule, operating three round trips per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The reservation status is comparable to existing European routes, with a target reservation rate of 90% by next summer.
From Milan, it is possible to access 76 cities in 34 countries through code-shared flights. ANA has started code-sharing with ITA Airways in January this year and formed a partnership with the railway company Trenitalia in July.
There is a strong demand for cargo from both Japan and Italy, handling items such as semiconductors, automobile parts, machine tools, garments, and from Italy high demand for leather goods, brand apparel, pharmaceuticals, aircraft parts, e-cigarettes, and construction materials (marble). Italy is the second-largest export cargo market after Germany, with high expectations for the cargo market.
ANA plans to open the Tokyo/Haneda to Stockholm route on January 31, 2025, and the Tokyo/Haneda to Istanbul route on February 12, 2025. This will increase ANA’s operation to 49 round trips per week to nine cities in Europe.
■Flight Schedule NH207 Tokyo/Haneda (01:05) to Milan (08:30) / Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays NH208 Milan (10:30) to Tokyo/Haneda (07:30+1) / Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays
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