KOBE (Kyodo) Japan Airline Corp. terminated all of its flights Monday at Kobe Airport as part of its restructuring.
JAL ended flights between Kobe and Shin-Chitose Airport in Hokkaido and Naha and Ishigaki airports in Okinawa.
JAL's withdrawal is a blow to the money-losing Kobe Airport, which is expected to suffer operating losses
for both fiscal 2009 and 2010.
for both fiscal 2009 and 2010.The airport will lose much of the its landing fees, a pillar of its operations. In 2009, JAL flights accounted about 35 percent of its landing fees of ¥690 million.
"We'd like (JAL) to come back as early as possible," Kobe Mayor Tatsuo Yada said.
