Pandemic-hit airlines expand horizons in search of profit

This month, Japan Airlines (JAL) was set to launch a business to assist Japanese companies in marketing their goods online to consumers in China.

TOKYO: Airlines are exercising their ingenuity to tap new income streams as their main lines of business suffer losses amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Major Japanese carriers have branched into new businesses or are wringing the last drops of value out of their retiring aircraft.