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| ANA Introduces Inflight Internet and e-mail on its First Tokyo-New York
777-300ER flight |
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| TOKYO May 12, 2005- Today ANA (All Nippon Airways) introduced real-time
Internet and e-mail services on its Tokyo-New York route, giving passengers the
chance to keep in touch with colleagues, business partners and families, or to
simply surf the net, through a broadband connection to the aircraft. The technology
making it possible has been provided by Connexion by Boeing of Seattle. |
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| The system, branded as ANA@AIR, comes packaged with ANA’s new Boeing
777-300ER service to North America. This variant of the popular Boeing 777 family
will replace the current daily Boeing 747-400 service on the Tokyo-New York route,
carrying 247 passengers in a four class configuration: 8 First Class, 77 New Style
Club ANA, 24 Premium Economy and 138 Economy. |
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| Passengers are able to access the Internet on their own laptops via a choice
of wired or wireless connections in First Class, New Style Club ANA and Premium
Economy, or via wireless in Economy class. |
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| The same aircraft type, also equipped with Connexion by Boeing, will be introduced
onto the Tokyo-Los Angeles route in October this year, and the Tokyo-San Francisco
route in March 2006. |
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| ANA was the first airline in Asia to introduce inflight Internet and e-mail
services on November 15, 2004. |
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| In addition to their laptops, passengers need to provide a wireless LAN card
or LAN cable to access the onboard Internet and e-mail. Seats in First Class,
Club ANA and Premium Economy are equipped with universal laptop power outlets. |
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| Contact: Rob Henderson, Public Relations, r.henderson@ana.co.jp |
