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What we compareJ-AirJapan Airlines
Country in archiveJapanJapan
Founded1996August 1, 1951
Founder—Aiichirō Fujiyama
HeadquartersOsaka International Airport, Japan, JapanShinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Name originThe sources used for this short profile do not explain the origin of the J-Air name.The name is simply descriptive: Japan Airlines identifies a Japanese national carrier, and the abbreviation JAL comes from the English words Japan Air Lines. The archive's 1959 logo spells it "Japan Air Lines", while the current mark reads "Japan Airlines".
HighlightsOsaka International AirportDouglas DC-8, Boeing 747-400, Boeing 777-300ER, Airbus A350-900
Earliest archived brand logo19961951
Latest archived logo20112011
Archived logo assets35

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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