Japan Airlines (JAL) yesterday received Good Design award 2015 from the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) for its latest Economy Class seat - JAL SKY WIDER II. JAL has been arranging this new seat on its Boeing 787 aircraft since December 2014, as the second installment of "New Spacious Economy" project for international service.
In 2013, JAL SKY WIDER seats (the pre...
The Development Bank of Japan is in talks with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to invest 100 billion yen (US$831 million) in its development of the nation's first passenger plane in more than 40 years, two people familiar with the situation said.
The state-owned bank wants to help stimulate Japan's aviation industry and will make a decision by the end of March, said one person, asking...
