ANA and Formulate New Accessibility Guidelines to Ensure a Safe and Comfortable Journey for All Passengers during COVID-19 crisis

 Airlines jointly introduce new measures in providing assistance involving physical contact; strengthen initiatives to ensure hand disinfection and sterilization and approaching diagonally or from the side to prevent direct transmission.  New measures strengthen the ability to provide timely information for those with visual and/or hearing impairment.  Carriers are committed to improving communication measures, and while masks are essential in protecting one’s health, the carriers will provide visual aids at the airport to overcome the difficulties that masks create for the hearing impaired.

TOKYO, October 26, 2020 – (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL), under the direct supervision of The Nippon Care-Fit Education Institute, today announced a new accessibility guideline for customers requesting special assistance at the airport and during flights and employees to ensure a safe and accessible journey when traveling by air during COVID-19 crisis.

The guideline follows the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) “Guidance on Accessible Air Travel in Response to COVID-19”, which lays out the basic principles for airlines to follow on special assistance requests, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan’s guideline on measures of communication-based assistance for customers need special assistance.

Based on the jointly announced new accessibility guidelines, ANA and JAL will act responsibly and respond to the needs of the traveling public, while strengthening efforts to prevent the spread of COVID- 19. Both carriers seek to provide a safe, secure and accessible travel experience.

1. Creating a Hygienic Environments Committing to create hygienic environments at airports, lounges, and inside the aircraft in order to provide greater safety and peace of mind when traveling under conditions of concern for infection with the new coronavirus.

2. Appropriate Measures to Prevent Infections Implement appropriate measures to prevent infection of both customers and airline employees in response to customer needs and condition such as disabilities.

3. Providing Appropriate Information Provide customers with updated information on infection prevention measures.

For full details, refer to the carrier’s website below: ANA:https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/serviceinfo/share/assist/other/coronavirus-support.html

Contact: ANA Corporate Communications, TEL +81-3-6735-1111, [email protected]

About ANA Following the “Inspiration of Japan” high quality of service, ANA has been awarded the respected 5-Star rating every year since 2013 from . ANA is the only Japanese airline to win this prestigious designation seven years in a row. Additionally, ANA has been recognized by Air Transport World as “Airline of the Year” three times in the past 10 years - 2007, 2013 and 2018, becoming one of the few airlines winning this prestigious award for multiple times.

ANA was founded in 1952 with two helicopters and has become the largest airline in Japan, as well as one of the most significant airlines in Asia, operating 82 international routes and 118 domestic routes (as of December 2019). ANA offers a unique dual hub model which enables passengers to travel to and connect through the two airports in the metropolitan Tokyo, NARITA and HANEDA, to various destinations throughout Japan, and also offers same day connections between various North American, Asian and Chinese cities.

ANA has been a member of since 1999 and has partnerships with , German Airlines, Swiss International Airlines and .

In addition to the full service and award-winning record of ANA, the ANA Group’s subsidiary Limited is the leading LCC in Japan, and has expanded following the integration of Inc. in late 2019. The ANA Group carried 54.4 million passengers in FY2018, has approximately 43,000 employees and a fleet of 260 aircraft. ANA is a proud launch customer and the biggest operator of the . For more information, please refer to the following link: https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/