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Founded | November 11, 1996 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | December 20, 1998 | ||||||
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Haneda Airport New Chitose Airport |
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Frequent-flyer program | My AIRDO | ||||||
Fleet size | 14 | ||||||
Destinations | 10 (Aug. 2015) | ||||||
Parent company | AIRDO Co., Ltd. (株式会社AIRDO?) | ||||||
Headquarters | Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan | ||||||
Key people | Yasuhisa Tani, President | ||||||
Revenue | ¥49 billion (FY 2014) | ||||||
Employees | 954 (Apr. 2015) | ||||||
Website | airdo.jp |
Air Do (エア・ドウ Ea Dō?), previously known as Hokkaido International Airlines (北海道国際航空株式会社 Hokkaidō Kokusai Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha?), is a regional airline operating scheduled service between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaidō in cooperation with All Nippon Airways. It is headquartered in the Oak Sapporo Building (オーク札幌ビル Ōku Sapporo Biru?) in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, and its main base of operations is Haneda Airport in Ōta, Tokyo.
Hokkaido International Airlines was founded in 1996 by Teruo Hamada (?), a entrepreneur in Hokkaidō, shortly after the Japanese government approved a domestic Hamada Teruoairline deregulation policy that would allow carriers to freely set fares on domestic routes. Hamada gathered investments from 29 other individuals who were interested in establishing a low-cost airline to compete with Japan's major domestic carriers (All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Japan Air System) on flights between Hokkaido cities and Tokyo. Additional capital was raised from Kyocera, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance, Hokkaido Electric Power Company and other institutional investors, as well as from Hokkaido local governments seeking less expensive air service to Tokyo.