Overview

• Japan Airlines submitted recurrence-prevention measures to Japan’s transport ministry on September 30 that prioritize alcohol-awareness education using external experts starting in November.
• An external expert committee will launch in October to review and recommend improvements to the airline’s alcohol countermeasures, with a revised plan due to the ministry by late November.
• The airline will conduct emergency additional alcohol tests for pilots at overseas stay locations and will set up direct dialogues between all flight crews and senior management.
• Health-based controls will tighten, with pilots barred from duty if liver-function indicators exceed set thresholds, according to the company’s outlined measures.
• The actions follow an August incident in Honolulu in which a captain drank before duty, was later dismissed, and three international flights were delayed by up to roughly 18 to 18.5 hours after positive self-tests and record tampering findings.