全日空加強國際航線服務

Recently the Asahi News on-line reported the following:

ＡＮＡ、過去最多のＣＡ採用　国際線増便で来春５００人

2014年2月20日23時28分

　全日本空輸は２０日、２０１５年春に入社する客室乗務員（ＣＡ）の採用数を過去最多の約５００人にすると発表した。４５８人が入社する１４年春より１割程度増やす。全日空は羽田空港の国際線発着枠の配分で日本航空の２倍超の１日１１便を得ており、路線増に合わせて国際線の人員を増強する。

　親会社のＡＮＡホールディングスは１４日、１６年度までに国際線を現在の約１・５倍に増やして、国内線を上回る規模にする方針を発表している。アジア路線などに適した最新鋭機「ボーイング７８７」を６６機購入する計画で、客室乗務員も大幅に増やす必要があると判断した。

　客室乗務員は、新興の格安航空会社（ＬＣＣ）なども採用を強化している。全日空は質の高い人材を確保するため、客室乗務員を３年間の契約社員として雇うこれまでの方式を改め、１４年春からは正社員として雇うことを発表している。ライバルの日本航空は１４年春に約３００人、１５年春に約２００人を採用する方針という。（上栗崇）

(試譯文)

On the 20th All Nippon Airways announced  that it would set a record by taking in 500 people to join the company as flight attendant (CA) in the spring of 2015. It would be an increase of about ten percent when 458 people joined the company starting from the spring of 2014. In the allocation of the international airline landing slot in Haneda Airport, All Nippon Airways had 11 flights per day, which was two times more than the Japan Airlines, and it had to beef up the staff in its international flights in response to these increases in routes.

The parent company, ANA Holdings had announced on the 14th a plan to increase the present international flights by about 1.5 times, making its scale to exceed the domestic flights by the fiscal year 2016. Sixty-six numbers of state-of-the-art machines, the "Boeing 787" which were suitable for the Asia routes etc. were scheduled to be purchased, and it was judged that flight attendants were also needed to be increased sharply.

As for the flight attendants, action to adopt the new low-cost carrier (LCC) etc. had been strengthened. The old system which employed a flight attendant as a contracted employee for three years would be changed. In order to secure high quality talented people, All Nippon Airways had announced that employees would be treated as full-time staff starting from the spring of 2014. Japan Airlines, a rival, had a plan to employ about 300 people in the spring of 2014, and about 200 people in the spring of 2015.

It seems that there is a business boom in Japan’s airline industry.