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| Above, an All Nippon Airways jet at Narita Airport. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Business and student travel to Japan has been allowed again, but tourism travel is still in a freeze.
The CEO of All Nippon Airways (ANA) is urging the Japanese government to boost travel.
According to the Asahi Shimbun:
Japan’s biggest airline, ANA Holdings, has asked the government to ease curbs on overseas visitors, and seeks a revival of domestic tourism subsidies to spur travel as pandemic infections fall, its chief executive said on Thursday.
Coronavirus immigration curbs in Japan have led to a drop of about 95 percent in the number of passengers on international flights, but daily infections have dropped to fewer than 200 this month, from an August peak of more than 20,000.
“When we are able to make money we should be allowed to,” Shinya Katanozaka, chief executive of the carrier that has had seven consecutive quarters of losses, told Reuters in an interview.
“It will give us the strength to weather things in the future.”
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