JALways

JALways
株式会社ジャルウェイズ
Kabushiki-gaisha Jaruweizu

IATA ICAO Call sign JO JAZ JALWAYS
Founded	October 5, 1990 (1990-10-05) (as Japan Air Charter)
Commenced operations	February 22, 1991 (1991-02-22)
Ceased operations	December 1, 2010 (2010-12-01) (re-integrated into Japan Airlines)
Hubs	Tokyo–Haneda Tokyo–Narita
Secondary hubs	Osaka–Itami Osaka–Kansai
Frequent-flyer program	JAL Mileage Bank
Alliance	Oneworld (affiliate; 2007–2010)
Parent company	Japan Airlines
Headquarters	Narita, Chiba, Japan
Key people	Hiroshi Ikeda (President & CEO)

JALways Co., Ltd. (JAZ) (株式会社ジャルウェイズ, Kabushiki-gaisha Jaruweizu), formerly Japan Air Charter Co., Ltd. (ジャパンエアチャーター株式会社, Japan Ea Chātā Kabushiki-gaisha), was an international airline registered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, with its headquarters and its main hub at Narita International Airport. The airline had a secondary hub at Osaka's Kansai International Airport. Its operations included scheduled and non-scheduled international passenger services to 15 high-density low yield tourist destinations in nine countries using a fleet of Boeing only aircraft wet-leased from Japan Airlines.

JALways was founded as Japan Air Charter on October 5, 1990 and began charter operations with a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 on February 22, 1991. The airline obtained a license to operate scheduled services on July 30, 1999 and operated its first scheduled passenger service on October 1. On the same day, the airline changed its name to JALways. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 1999, JALways, together with its sister airlines within the JAL Group, carried over 32 million passengers and over 1.1 million tons of cargo and mail.

JALways was once a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's flag carrier, Japan Airlines, but on December 1, 2010 its operations were merged into those of its parent company.^[1]