Peach (airline)

Peach Aviation, short Peach (Japaneseピーチ·アビエーション 株式会社, Pichi abiēshon Kabushikigaisha ) is a Japanese low-cost airline with headquarters in Osaka and an offshoot of All Nippon Airways.

History

Peach Aviation was established at the beginning of 2011 to life. At that time still under the working title A & F Aviation, based in the Hong Kong investor First Eastern Group and the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways ( ANA) agreed on the establishment of a joint venture, which was to go as cheap subsidiary of ANA at the start. The base should be the Kansai airport in Osaka.

In May we changed the company name to " Peach Aviation ", the peach represents (English peach ) in the region of happiness, energy and also long life. In addition, the letters in Peach can swap out Cheap. Meanwhile, the company operating the recording was closer and had been set for the lease of 10 Airbus A320-200s from GECAS. The aircraft should thereby obtain 180 seats, the maximum seating. The contract for the aircraft had been closed in February and saw before, to transfer the aircraft from the end of 2011 over a period of two years. Early November 2011, then arrived the first aircraft in Japan. Ticket sales started on January 5, 2012.

At mid-year, the date for the first flight, which was previously determined until sometime between mid spongy 2010 and early 2011 was determined for March 2012. First international flights should then follow in May 2012.

Peach bills itself as the first Japanese low-cost airline, which also insofar finds confirmation that Peach Aviation in the price and also in the service, which is, for example, at about the level of easyJet, is well below the carriers previously known as the low-cost airline in Japan.

Fleet

As of November 2013, the fleet of Peach Aviation consists of ten aircraft:

• 7 Airbus A320 -200 ( leased from GECAS 1 and 7 of SMBC Aviation Capital)