Tickets for ANA's Sydney-Tokyo Boeing 787-9 flights now on sale

Any kind of direct competition is a good thing.

Before they start flying here it might be good if they allowed ticketing here. For some bizarre reason, when they pulled out of Australia they cancelled all ticketing rights so Australian travel agents cannot sell any routes on this airline. Despite being a major member of Star Alliance and a very big airline, I can ticket for instance Velavia from Minsk to Prague without problem but cannot ticket ANA from Tokyo to Los Angeles. So they obviously don't consider Australia very highly.

Australia - Japan market has been dominant by Japan Airlines, Qantas and Jetstar in recent years. It is good to see ANA back.

However, I hope ANA can consider codesharing and tie up with Virgin Australia so Velocity members can earn and burn points on ANA and vice versa, along with their frequent flyer benefit, codesharing and interlining, to increase the catchment of passengers, particularly from Adelaide and Tullamarine.

Of course, on return, Velocity members will then be able to get shorter flying time between Australia and North East Asia via Haneda rather than Changi, which I believe it is important for VA if they want their virtual flying network to outweigh Qantas.

Great   News.  To  be   competitive   though   they   need   to   ensure   flat  beds  in  Business   class  or   else   no  one    will   fly  them!

Finally some good respresentation fro *A. Now we're not beholden to OW and QF. With NH, SQ, TK, TZ, TG we finally get some good representations. QFF is a joke, a fraud and I can't wait to see the end of the bastards.Bring it on ACCC, the sooner the better

12 hours is a long time on the deck... Interesting for crew placement and aircraft utilisaton. 

So the video and images show reverse herringbone seating in business, while the seat map clearly shows a staggered layout. I think the video is a Boeing video and nothing to do with ANA or its aircraft.

I'd give ANA and JAL a go. They look great with the recent hard product improvements.

I've spoken to people who've flown them and compliments were coming out of them.

The business class on the seat map looks like staggered seat as their 77W, but the video looks like reverse herringbone. Do you know which one will we get?

Hope they don't reverse the decision.

ANA are cancelling 1 of there twice daily flights to Paris from 25 October.  I wonder if this is where the capacity comes from to launch Sydney.

There is nothing on the ANA website confirming the launch at this stage.

love ANA....

Looks like this article was on the money. ANA rep on facebook confirmed to a user yesterday that the SYD-HND route will be announced shortly as there hasn't been an official date.

So I'm taking it that they have sorted out the icing problem on GE engines flying through the tropics then?

Excellent news for skiers, and with a 5 am arrival and additional AUD$120 fare through to Sapporo you could be knee-deep in Niseko powder at 2 pm !  Actually Hyperdia suggests that there is a 7:30 am monorail that could see you connecting to the Shinkansen for a 10 am arrival in Nagano - amazing.

so so so excited! I hope this competition encourages Japan Airlines to permanently put the 777ER with the suites on the Syd route.

"No surprises in economy" ...are you kidding ! 34in pitch - wow that's huge ! Yes it has the now infamously standard 3-3-3 but 34in pitch will make a huge difference to passenger comfort - I would go out of my way to fly with them even though I have QF FF !

Any word when Star Alliance miles will be usable for award bookings?

love ANA.

possible to book multi legged flights from their site? e.g sydney to tokyo, tokyo to shanghai