Japan prefers piecemeal approach to big bailout for carrier ANA

Ana is not what people think. I almost never fly Ana!

Personally, it's my favorite airline.

Ana is not what people think. I almost never fly Ana.

ANA could offer discount priced flights that are paid for now but can be taken sometime within the next 2 or 3 years. That might get them some needed cash.

Ultimately the Bank of Japan is responsible. So the chain of payment obligations could theoretically be frozen in time until such time the situation becomes normal again - of course that would mean no one gets paid in between now and then, and Companies go bust....

Maybe JAL and ANA can merge to save money.

I'd put ¥50,000 on this happening. The precedent is Air Canada gobbling up Canadian Airlines in 2000 when their government preferred the flag carrier. ANA won't be allowed to go broke, too much loss of face.

Maybe JAL and ANA can merge to save money. They could call the company JANAL.

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Just open the country to foreign tourists, make sure they're tested and negative before leaving their native country,

And how easy or cheap would it be to get tested within 72 hours of departure? Japan is making it very very difficult even for permanent residents. You have to go to the embassy to get their own forms too. Make no mistake, this is done on purpose. I hope no tourists come and the Olympics get cancelled. It'll serve them right.

ZorotoToday  12:30 pm JST

protecting the relative small number of people who might actually get sick for SARS-CoV-2.

Sounds like a reasonable plan. I wonder why nobody has thought of this before and we need kyronstavic to tell us. Wait, is it maybe because this virus can spread from people with no symptoms to those you are suggesting to protect?

Did you miss the first part of the sentence? The reason why ANA and millions of businesses around the globe are in deep trouble? It's possible to do both without crippling economies around the world.

I will repeat again, I will sympathize with LCC and not companies like ANA

that over the years have made massive profits by over charging travellers, we often hear

of Apple having 194B USD cash at hand, where is ANA's cash at hand ?, I don't

believe all their profits was distributed to shareholders. Japan post is not accepting air packages

bound for more than a hundred countries and considering Japan is an export oriented economy

there is presently tremendous demand for air cargo, ANA can convert some of their planes to cargo

Korean Airlines made a 125M USD profit during this pandemic, ANA can also take advantage as well

instead of relying on bailouts.

Given that governments are responsible for the economic mayhem that they have inflicted through lockdowns/excessive restrictions, they must be partly liable for bailing out companies like ANA. But of course doing so would just add to the infinite level of money printing that’s going on now to “create” the money to do so. 

Now that it’s increasingly clear that this virus is nowhere near as lethal as we’ve been misled to believe, it’s time to open up the economies to trade and travel and let companies like ANA and hundreds of thousands of others get back on their feet while protecting the relative small number of people who might actually get sick for SARS-CoV-2.

Interesting. JAL has a nice friendly relationship with LDP. Bailout.

I’m biased because I have had better service from ANA.

JAL received a lump sum bailout that saved them from 2.3 trillion yen debt almost 10 years ago. This debt was not based on something uncontrollable like the pandemic but basically poor management. JAL was the "national" airlines of Japan and received favoritism and basically placed ANA on an uneven playing field. And now ANA has to eat this? Why the double standards, someone big owns a lot of JAL stock?

I would personally prefer a full blown huge bailout or nationalisation.

Cost cuts and the sort will almost certainly affect safety and I for one won't fly ANA anymore.

There is no point surviving the plague just to die in an aeroplane crash.

Airlines (along with banks) are one of those businesses that need massive infusions of corporate welfare in a seemingly cyclical basis. Oil shock, 911 and war in the Middle east, financial crisis and now COVID. When are they going to get to experience the glorious possibilities of the free market and the wonderful opportunities of late stage capitalism?

",,,that will most likely include pay cuts..."

Gotta love how the Einsteins at the BOJ and economists scratch their heads over Japanese people's "deflationary mindset." Here it's source, folks -- Japanese companies that cut wages instead of furloughs and layoffs as part of restructuring.

If this continues, 100 yen stores will be 80 yen stores. Hello, deflation!

It sinks, if a business goes bust so be it. Tax payers have more pressing problems than propping up a failed Buisness model.

Just open the country to foreign tourists, make sure they're tested and negative before leaving their native country, test them when they arrive in Japan and once again when they leave. Make masks mandatory. The entire world is falling apart because of a virus that kills a very, very small portion of any country's population, and almost every one of those people are very old, comparatively speaking, or have other serious health problems. The 'social woke' media are hyping this to the extreme, and it's getting tiring. Politicians are kowtowing to needless fear. We can't all live forever.