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What we compareJapan AirlinesAll Nippon Airways
Country in archiveJapanJapan
FoundedAugust 1, 19511952
FounderAiichirō FujiyamaNippon Helicopter and Far East Airlines (merged 1958)
HeadquartersShinagawa, Tokyo, JapanMinato, Tokyo, Japan
Name originThe 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".The name is the English form of the company's Japanese name Zen Nippon Kuyu, meaning All Japan Air Transport. Nippon Helicopter renamed itself All Nippon Airways Company in December 1957, and the merger with Far East Airlines followed in March 1958. ANA is the abbreviation.
HighlightsDouglas DC-8, Boeing 747-400, Boeing 777-300ER, Airbus A350-900Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing 747SR, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, Haneda hub, Narita hub
Earliest archived brand logo19511958
Latest archived logo20111986
Archived logo assets53

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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