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Vanilla Air 1st Japan budget carrier to sell 'air pass'

TOKYO, Japan - Vanilla Air Inc. announces on Dec. 8, 2014, the launch of monthly passes for its flight linking Narita airport near Tokyo and Amami-Oshima Island in southwestern Japan, becoming the first Japanese budget airline to adopt such an approach. The "Vaniller's Pass" will be available in limited quantities and sold on a first-come-first-served basis.

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Vanilla Air to cancel flights

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows airplanes of Japanese budget carrier Vanilla Air at Narita airport near Tokyo on May 16, 2014. The airline will cancel a total of 154 domestic flights, or 20 percent of its total services, in June 2014 due to a shortage of pilots.

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Vanilla Air to cancel flights

TOKYO, Japan - Tomonori Ishii, president of Japanese budget carrier Vanilla Air, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 16, 2014. The airline will cancel a total of 154 domestic flights, or 20 percent of its total services, in June 2014 due to a shortage of pilots.

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Vanilla Air begins operation

NARITA, Japan - Tomonori Ishii (front L), president of Vanilla Air Inc., gives a souvenir to a passenger on the first flight for Naha, Okinawa Prefecture's capital, on the morning of Dec. 20, 2013, at Narita Airport near Tokyo, as Vanilla Air, a reborn low-cost carrier under ANA Holdings Inc., began operation with flights linking its base, Narita Airport, with Naha and Taipei.

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Vanilla Air begins operation

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows the first flight about to leave for Naha, Okinawa Prefecture's capital, on the morning of Dec. 20, 2013, at Narita Airport near Tokyo, as Vanilla Air, a reborn low-cost carrier under ANA Holdings Inc., began operation with flights linking its base, Narita Airport, with Naha and Taipei.

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Vanilla Air

TOKYO, Japan - Tomonori Ishii (C), president of budget airline AirAsia Japan, poses for photos in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2013, after unveiling new designs for crew uniforms and flights. The low-cost carrier wholly owned by ANA Holdings Inc. will operate under the name of Vanilla Air from Nov. 1, 2013.

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AirAsia Japan to change name to Vanilla Air

TOKYO, Japan - Tomonori Ishii, president of AirAsia Japan, a low-cost carrier wholly owned by ANA Holdings Inc., tells a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2013, that it will change its name to Vanilla Air on Nov. 1 following the dissolution of the joint venture between its parent company and Malaysia's AirAsia Bhd.

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AirAsia Japan to change name to Vanilla Air

TOKYO, Japan - Tomonori Ishii, president of budget airline AirAsia Japan, unveils the company's new name, Vanilla Air, at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2013. AirAsia Japan, a low-cost carrier wholly owned by ANA Holdings Inc., will adopt the new name on Nov. 1 following the dissolution of the joint venture between its parent company and Malaysia's AirAsia Bhd.

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Narita International Airport opens Terminal 3

A Vanilla Air plane (foreground), the first flight to arrive at the newly opened Terminal 3 at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, approaches a gate on the morning of April 8, 2015. The terminal was inaugurated the same day to serve budget airlines, in a bid to court the growing number of low-cost carriers for domestic and short-haul international flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Vanilla Air 1st Japan budget carrier to sell 'air pass'

TOKYO, Japan - Vanilla Air Inc. announces on Dec. 8, 2014, the launch of monthly passes for its flight linking Narita airport near Tokyo and Amami-Oshima Island in southwestern Japan, becoming the first Japanese budget airline to adopt such an approach. The "Vaniller's Pass" will be available in limited quantities and sold on a first-come-first-served basis. (Kyodo)

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ANA to merge budget carriers Peach Aviation, Vanilla Air

(From L) Shinichi Inoue, Peach Aviation representative director & CEO, Shinya Katanozaka, chief executive officer of ANA Holdings Inc., and Katsuya Goto, president of Vanilla Air Inc., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on March 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wheelchair user crawled up boarding stairs in dispute with Vanilla Air

Hideto Kijima, president of the Japan Accessible Tourism Center, meets the press in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on June 28, 2017. Japanese budget airline Vanilla Air has apologized to Kijima after he crawled up boarding stairs in a dispute with a staffer at an airport in southern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wheelchair user crawled up boarding stairs in dispute with Vanilla Air

File photo taken in May 2014 shows aircraft of Japanese budget airline Vanilla Air at Narita airport, near Tokyo. The airline, wholly owned by ANA Holdings Inc., has apologized to a wheelchair user after he crawled up boarding stairs in a dispute with a staffer at an airport in southern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Vanilla Air to launch daily flights to Hakodate from Tokyo, Osaka

Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo (L) and Katsuyta Goto, president of Vanilla Air Inc., a low-cost carrier unit of ANA Holdings Inc., shake hands during a press conference in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Nov. 22, 2016. The airline said it will launch daily flights between Hakodate and Tokyo as well as Osaka next year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo