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Air Do

Air Do
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IATA ICAO Callsign
HD ADO AIR DO
Founded November 11, 1996 (1996-11-11)
Commenced operations December 20, 1998
Operating bases Haneda Airport
New Chitose Airport
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 Decrease¥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 ( Hamada Teruo?), a entrepreneur in Hokkaidō, shortly after the Japanese government approved a domestic airline 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.


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