Hawaiian, JAL file for joint venture

19 Jun 2018 2075 | World Travel News

Hawaiian Airlines and Japan Airlines (JAL) have filed an application with the US Department of Transportation and Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism seeking immunity from antitrust laws to create a joint venture (JV).

The antitrust immunised joint venture (ATI-JV) will build upon the codeshare partnership that the two carriers initiated in March, allowing them to coordinate marketing and sales efforts, and share costs and revenue on their joint venture routes.

From left: Hawaiian Airlines’ Theo Panagiotoulias and Mark Dunkerley; and Japan Airlines’ Yoshiharu Ueki and Hideki Oshima first signed a comprehensive new partnership agreement last year in September which took effect in March 2018

In their application, Hawaiian and JAL demonstrate that the resulting efficiency will bring about consumer benefits including lower fares, increased capacity and enhanced consumer choice.

Both airlines estimate that the JV will bring an additional 162,000 to 350,000 passengers to Hawaii and contribute between US$184.5 million and US$402.3 million to the US economy annually, while generating between 1,855 to 4,049 US jobs.