Harlequin Air

Harlequin Air was founded by JAL on 20Jan1997 and commenced operations on 19Dec1997 operating international and domestic passenger services. Integrated back into parent company, having ceased operations on 30Apr2005
[ – JAL was founded as JAPANESE AIRLINES on 01Aug1951 by a group of private investors and initially restricted it’s operations to domestic services using crews and aircraft leased from Northwest Airlines, commencing operations on 25Oct1951 . In 1953 the company was reorganised as JAPAN AIR LINES and took over as the flag carrier for Japan. Renamed to Japan Airlines International on 01Apr2004 following merger with JAPAN AIR SYSTEMS. On 01Oct2006, Japan Airlines International and Japan Airlines Domestic merged into a single brand, Japan Airlines International. On 01Apr2008, JAL merged the operations of its subsidiary Japan Asia Airways (JAA) into JAL mainline operations]