Japan Airlines (JL) flights & route network
390 routes · 102 destinations · 5 hub airports across 27 countrys.
Figures computed from the public OpenFlights datasetData source: OpenFlights routes.dat
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Japan Airlines hub airports
Airports ranked by the number of Japan Airlines routes originating from each IATA code. A higher count indicates a stronger hub — more nonstop destinations available from that airport.
Routes operated by JL
Showing the 50 longest Japan Airlines routes parsed from the OpenFlights routes dataset. Click any route for live fare comparison.
JL route network
Every figure below is computed live from the OpenFlights routes dataset at the time of page render. No prices, no fabricated carrier names — only the airline codes stored verbatim in thedirectCarriersJSON field on each FlightRoute row.
All countries served by JL
Ranked by the number of Japan Airlines routes arriving in each destination country. The leading market is where the airline concentrates most of its international capacity.
About flying with Japan Airlines
Japan Airlines (JL) operates 390 scheduled flight routes parsed from the OpenFlights public routes dataset.
From its primary hub at NRT (Tokyo, Japan) the airline flies 49 nonstop routes, with 4 additional airports serving as regional connection points across the network.
The longest nonstop route operated by Japan Airlines is New York (JFK) to Tokyo (NRT), covering 6,730 great-circle miles and averaging about 45m of flight time. Its shortest scheduled route — Sapporo (CTS) to Memanbetsu (MMB) — covers just 146 miles.
Across the full network, Japan Airlines serves 27 countrys; the most-served destination market is Japan with 247 inbound routes.
How to find the best Japan Airlines fares
Booking out of NRT is usually the strongest fare play: Japan Airlines concentrates 49 of its routess from Tokyo, and higher route density at a hub means more head-to-head competition — both from other Japan Airlines departures and from rival carriers serving overlapping city pairs. Use the Kayak search box above with origin set to NRT to see the airline's full departure board at a glance.
All route, hub, destination and country figures are computed directly from the OpenFlights public-domain routes dataset(openflights.org/data.php)— specifically the directCarriers JSON field on every FlightRoute row, where each airline code (e.g. JL) is parsed from the OpenFlightsroutes.dat airline identifier column. Carrier names come from the companion OpenFlights airlines.dat dataset. No prices or fare estimates appear on this page — those values fluctuate continuously across 100+ booking sites and are fetched live via Kayak at search time.