Flight cancellations by All Nippon Airways Co. (9202.TO) and Japan Airlines Corp. continued Saturday, after a massive earthquake struck northeast Japan, even as operations at Tokyo's main airports returned to normal with most other Asian carriers resuming scheduled flights.
Japan's air carriers cancelled flights due to difficulties with connecting flights to airports in quake-hit areas, and due to interruptions of ground transport to Tokyo's international airports of Narita and Haneda.
ANA said it is canceling 52 domestic flights Saturday, grounding 4,900 passengers. It is cancelling 18 international flights affecting 2,600 passengers.
JAL said 117 domestic flights have been cancelled with 20,140 passengers affected. A total of 14 international flights have been cancelled affecting 2,090 passengers.
Separately, the transport ministry said the total number of flight cancellations into and out of Japan by domestic and foreign carriers totaled 400 Saturday.
Several hundreds of international flights had already been cancelled Friday, grounding thousands of passengers following the massive 8.9-magnitude quake that struck off the northeast of Japan, temporarily halting operations at Tokyo's main airports and disrupting ground transportation, communications and power supply in Tokyo and around the quake-torn areas.
The quake, Japan's strongest on record, triggered a devastating tsunami and claimed at least 433 lives with 784 people still missing, according to Kyodo News.
Elsewhere in Asia, most airlines were resuming flights as normal. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (0293.HK) said in a statement it would resume six scheduled flights to and from Narita and Haneda Saturday afternoon.
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