BA suspend Tokyo flights
19.04.11
With the nuclear crisis in Japan expected to extend throughout this year, British Airways has suspended flights to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport until further notice because of a 'lack of demand'. The airline only began flying to Haneda in late February. It will continue flying daily to Tokyo’s Narita Airport, to which it resumed direct services on April 2.
Radiation levels in the sea off the crippled Fukishima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo were reported to be 6500 times the legal limit on Friday. The Japan National Tourism Organisation in London reported visitors to Tokyo have fallen 75%, but said many of the country’s popular destinations were outside the area affected by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
The UK Foreign Office (FCO) advises against all but essential travel to areas north east of Tokyo, amid continuing disruption and aftershocks. The FCO advises people to stay outside an 80-kilometre radius of the failed nuclear plant – four times the extent of the official evacuation zone. Both Tokyo and Narita lie beyond this limit.
BA says it will keep demand ‘under review’ for the destination.
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