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(全日空 Zennikku or 全日本空輸 Zen-nippon kuyu) is an airline headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Formerly Japan's largest domestic carrier, it is now the country's second-largest domestic and international carrier, after Japan Airlines. lt is often known by the abbreviation ANA, which is popularly used as an acronym in Japanese.

ANA's main international hub is at Narita International Airport outside Tokyo. Its main domestic hubs are at Tokyo International Airport, Osaka International Airport, Nagoya Airport, and New Chitose Airport (near Sapporo).

ANA's associate companies in Tokyo include Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) and Air Nippon, ANA's former regional airline which now handles charter flights for ANA. In 2004, ANA set up a low-cost subsidiary, Air Next, to operate flights from Fukuoka AirportFukuoka Airport ( Japanese: ) is an international airport in Fukuoka, Japan. Its IATA Airport Code is FUK. The airport is located in Hakata Ward, South-East of the city centre. It is connected to the rest of the city by subway and road, and a subway from starting in 20052005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). It has been designated: The World Year of Physics The International Year of Microcredit The International Year for Sport and Physical Education The United States Year of Foreign.

ANA uses the IATA airline codeIATA Airline Designators are two-letter codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the world's airlines. These codes form the first two letters of a flight code. Since 1987 the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) NH (from its former name Nippon Helicopter) and the ICAO airline codeICAO Airline Codes are three-letter codes assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO) to the world's airlines. These codes form the first three letters of a flight code. These have been issued since 1987. List of Codes A AAA : Ansett ANA.

1 History

ANA, which now ranks among the world's largest airlines, had humble beginnings, as a domestic operator. In February of 19531953 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for the calendar). Events January events January 7 President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 13 Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugosl, helicopter service was started and soon after passenger charter flights followed. 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal saw the beginning of a new and profitable ANA route when Osaka was added from Tokyo with an inaugural cargo flight. That same year, the Douglas DC-3 plane began flying for Japan Helicopters and Aeroplane, and in 1957, the airline changed its name to ANA. In 1958, Far Eastern Aviation, a small competitor, merged with ANA, bringing the airline's total capital to 600 million yen.

The 1960s was a period of slow but unstoppable growth for the company, when they added the Vickers Viscount to the fleet in 1960, and later Fokker F27s, in 1961. 1961 marked ANA's debut at the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as the Osaka Security Exchange . 1963 saw another merger, this one with Fujita Airlines, raising the company's capital to 4 billion yen. In 1965, ANA introduced jet services with Boeing 727s: these were soon joined by YS-11s, and in 1969, ANA introduced Boeing 737 service.

The 1970s saw the beginning of ANA's internationalization. February 3 of 1971 in particular was a historic date for the airline, when ANA inaugurated its first international service, a charter flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong. The Lockheed L-1011 was introduced in 1973, Boeing 747s in 1978, and Boeing 767s in 1983.

In 1986, ANA started regular passenger service from Tokyo to Guam. Soon after, many cities such as Frankfurt, New York, Los Angeles, London and Paris were added. ANA continued its expansion of services all over Asia, North America and Europe during the 1990's, and Airbus equipment such as the A320, A321 and A340 was added to the fleet, as was the Boeing 747-400 jet. In 1994, ANA started service to Kansai International Airport and in 1999, it joined the Star Alliance.

After the September 11 attacks of 2001, an ANA 747 flying from Dulles International Airport in Virginia, near Washington D.C. to Narita, Japan became the first plane to fly in the United States once the grounding of all planes in US territory was declared over by President George W. Bush's government.

In 2004, facing a surplus of slots due to the construction of new airports and the expansion of Haneda, ANA announced a fleet renewal plan that would replace some of its large aircraft with a greater number of smaller aircraft. [1]