Originally Posted by AlwaysAisle

AirDo (headquarter at Sapporo) and Solaseed Air (headquarter at Miyazaki) are planning a consolidation, at this moment have not made a statement if AirDo and Solaseed will merge commercial operation and operate as one airline or maintain as two separate airline. AirDo and Solaseed Air will form common holding company (parent company will be the same) and will consolidate fuel and other supply chains for the cost saving. Also, planning to consolidate accounting and human resources of both airlines. Again, at this moment no announcement regarding commercial operation merger of these two airlines. The largest shareholder of both AirDo and Solaseed Air is Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) and DBJ is in favor of such move. Consolidation of AirDo and Solaseed Air will unlikely to face opposition.

Spring Airlines Japan (headquarter at Narita, Chiba), subsidiary of Spring Airlines China, will become subsidiary of JAL this June. ANA has merged Peach and Vanilla Air and strengthened domestic LCC business, JAL is looking the ways to strengthen it's LCC presence domestically and this seems to be the step. JAL has also investment in JetStar Japan, will be interesting to see how JAL will construct domestic LCC business. JAL Express started operation on 1998 and operation merged to JAL on 2014 was supposed to be JAL's answer to LCC...

By the way, wedding on ANA 777-300, according to ANA it is solidly booked, sold out.