Join us for a very special inaugural flight as All Nippon Airways launches flights between Stockholm Arlanda and Tokyo Haneda on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. This is part of ANA’s recent European expansion and we are onboard to show you all about what this historic flight was like. It’s the first ever flight between Stockholm and Tokyo by a Japanese airline and the first time the route has been flown since SAS briefly served the pair up until 1997. And we’re in business class for the first flight.
We’ve got the early morning festivities at the gate for NH222 including some nice speeches, sushi, a 7am DJ and balloons. We’ll also show you the special tote bag we were given to commemorate the day. And of course we’ll bring you all the action on this long 13 hour flight which today is taking the southerly route avoiding Russia and traveling via the Black Sea, Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan, China and South Korea. You’ll get lots of lovely views (including an especially stunning one of the Caucasus mountains along the Azerbaijan-Russia border), you’ll see the Japanese food and service onboard, and the landing into Tokyo Haneda early morning on February 1.
We’ll also be showing you a bit of the lovely hotel stay at Four Seasons Tokyo Otemachi (thanks to the hotel for being a sponsor) and some scenes from Tokyo. Stay tuned for the next installment where we get out on the water to try out a novel approach to planespotting at Haneda airport, and give out a bunch of Flightradar24 keychains to unsuspecting strangers!
