All Nippon Airways recently announced it will be resuming its Dreamliner flights between Tokyo’s Narita International Airport and Mineta San Jose International Airport starting from June 1, 2013. The airline had grounded its entire fleet of 17 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircrafts after technical malfunction in January this year.
The airline in a statement said that its fleet of 17 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircrafts would be retrofitted with new batteries and cleared for resuming services again by the end of May this year.
So far, the airline had modified 12 of its 17 Dreamliners and completed testing 10 of them. According to the airline, all its Dreamliner aircrafts would be modified by May 27.
The airline is planning to operate five flights every week out of San Jose, and would be adding daily services from September this year.
To mark the resuming of its San Jose-Tokyo Dreamliner flights once again, All Nippon Airways is offering cheap tickets starting from $980 on weekdays and $1,040 on weekends. The fares are excluding taxes. The Dreamliner flights on San Jose-Tokyo route would be operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays every week.