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Founded | 10 February 2011 (as A&F Aviation) | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 1 March 2012 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 37 | ||||||
Destinations | 19 | ||||||
Parent company | All Nippon Airways | ||||||
Headquarters | Tajiri, Osaka, Japan | ||||||
Key people | Shinichi Inoue (CEO) | ||||||
Revenue | JPY 14.3 billion (FY June 2013)[1] | ||||||
Operating income | JPY 1,046 million (June 2013)[1] | ||||||
Employees | 1,889 (1 October 2023)[2] | ||||||
Website | www |
Peach Aviation Limited (ピーチ・アビエーション 株式会社, Pīchi Abiēshon Kabushiki Gaisha), operating as Peach, is a Japanese low-cost airline. Its head office is at Kansai International Airport and in Tajiri, Osaka Prefecture.[2]
Peach was made in February 2011 as A&F Aviation between All Nippon Airways (ANA) and the First Eastern Investment Group, a Hong Kong-based private equity and venture capital firm. The company signed up for an operating certificate in April 2011 and changed its name to Peach Aviation in May 2011.[3] Its shares were held in almost equal portions by ANA, FEIG, and the INCJ, ANA holding a slightly larger share of the three.[4] ANA controls 77.9% of Peach's stock as of 2018.[2]
Peach's brand development was conducted by CIA, Inc. and The Brand Architect Group, who chose Neil Denari for aircraft livery design and James Wilkie for uniform design.[3] The airline is based at Kansai International Airport.[5] In July 2011, Peach received 1,909 applications for its first class of ninety flight attendants.[6]
At one time, its headquarters were located on the third floor of Aeroplaza (エアロプラザ, Earopuraza),[7] found on the space of Kansai International Airport in Tajiri, Sennan District, Osaka Prefecture.[8][9] On 1 August 2011, Peach said that it was moving its work office from Aeroplaza to Kensetsu-to.[10][11]
Peach's first airplane, an Airbus A320, was sent to its home base at Kansai International Airport in November 2011.[12] Within its crew, Peach has two named airplanes. Its first A320 was named Peach Dream; its tenth A320 was named Wing of Tohoku in a contest in which sixty elementary school kids from the Tohoku region sent favors.[13] The airline's first flight was on 1 March 2012, in the middle of Osaka Kansai and New Chitose Airport, which is also the Sapporo area.[14]
Peach was the most successful of the three new Japanese low-cost airplanes during their first year of work, with average loads around 80 percent against 70 percent for Jetstar Japan and 50 to 60 percent for AirAsia Japan. Peach's 24-hour works and exclusives at Kansai Airport were rewarded for its success,[15] as well as its stronger focus on certain passenger experience factors such as its reservations and check-in systems.[16]
However, during the summer 2014 season Peach stopped over 2,000 planned flights (about 16% of its total) due to a drop of workers. The airline planned to have 62 workers by October 2014 but only had 52 as of April, eight of whom were not able to fly due to sickness or injury. Loss of pilots to other airplanes was a cause for the shortage.[17] It was later reported that Peach would think about allowing its pilots to travel from Tokyo Haneda to Osaka Kansai on other airplanes, a practice rarely allowed in Japan, in order to attract workers who were not willing to travel to Osaka.[18]
In May 2017, Peach became the first airline company in Japan to accept bitcoin as money.[19]
On 22 March 2018, All Nippon Airways announced the funding of its two low-cost carrier companies Peach and Vanilla Air, with Peach as the surviving brand. Funding would begin during the second half of the 2018 fiscal year (FY) and to be completed by the end of FY2019. The combined airline also planned to control over 50 aircraft and routes beyond FY2020, up from 35 aircraft and 39 paths at the time of announcement, as well as targeted a ¥150 (1.34) billion revenue and a 10% operating profit for FY2020.[20] Vanilla Air ceased works on 26 October 2019, with its work combined with Peach's.
As of July 2023[update], Peach controlled an all-Airbus A320 family fleet composed of the following aircraft:[21][22]
Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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Airbus A320-200 | 27 | — | 180 | Older aircraft to be retired and replaced by Airbus A320neo. |
Airbus A320neo | 8 | 25[23][24] | 188[25] | To replace older Airbus A320-200. |
Airbus A321LR | 3 | — | 218 | |
Total | 38 | 25 |
The livery of Peach consists of a pink, purple and white color scheme. The main body and vertical machines is painted in pink and purple except for the front, which is painted in white. The brand name 'Peach' is painted on the vertical stabilizer and the front. Both wingtips are painted in pink.
Peach unveiled some special liveries as a collab campaigns with brands, such as Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure on an Airbus A320-200 (register code JA827P) in 4 March 2023,[26] and Japanese band Back Number on another A320-200 (register code JA826P) in 6 June 2023.[27] Usually, combined brands are put in the bottom row at both sides of the plane.
Peach Aviation Limited: Aeroplaza 3F, 1 Senshu-kuko-naka, Tajiricho, Sennan-gun, Osaka 549-8585, Japan
Tajiri-cho, Sennangun, Osaka, Japan
1.本社所在地 大阪府泉南郡田尻町泉州空港中1番地(関西空港内)
Kensetsu-to 5th floor, 1-Senshukuko-kita, Izumisano-shi, Osaka, Japan 549-8585
〒549-8585 大阪府泉佐野市泉州空港北一番地 建設棟 5 階
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