Fwd: ANA announces shortlist for aircraft body design contest Commemorating the 60th anniversary of ANA

ANA announces shortlist for aircraft body design contest

  Commemorating the 60th anniversary of ANA

 

TOKYO October 9, 2012 – ANA Group, Japan's largest airline group, today announces the shortlisted entries in its competition to paint a new design for the Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The competition, which took place in September, was a way of showing ANA's gratitude to its customers for their support over the past six decades. ANA received 7,042 submissions from 36 countries.

 

The winning design will be voted on through a special online site by ANA passengers and ANA employees -- votes will be cast between 9th and 21st October 2012 via the special online site:http://ana60thcontest.jp/. The winning design will be announced on 1st December 2012. The design will then be painted onto one of the 767s in the ANA fleet.

 

ANA will celebrate its 60th anniversary in December 2012.

 

 

About ANA Group

All Nippon Airways (ANA) is the ninth largest airline in the world by revenues and the largest in Japan by passenger numbers. Founded in 1952, it flies today to 76 domestic and international cities in a fleet of 231 aircraft serving a network of 174 routes. ANA has 33,000 employees and operates about 1,000 flights a day. In 2011, it carried 43 million passengers and generated revenues of $17.1 bn. ANA has been a core member of Star Alliance since 1999 and launched a joint-venture with United Airlines on trans-Pacific and Asia routes in April 2011; ANA launched a joint-venture with Lufthansa on Japan-Europe routes in October 2011. ANA has more than 23 million members belong to its Frequent Flyer Program (ANA Mileage Club). ANA is the launch customer for the world's newest and most advanced passenger aircraft, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.