Overview
- The aircraft made its last scheduled service on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, with send-off events held by JAL staff and observers at New Chitose and other airports.
- Reports say the final revenue leg departed Fukuoka bound for Haneda on June 10 as the special-livery operation ended.
- The jet was an Airbus A350 bearing large images of Shohei Ohtani as both pitcher and batter on the rear fuselage.
- JAL put the livery into service on September 29, 2024, on a Haneda–Sapporo flight and deployed it across five domestic routes over the roughly 21 months it operated.
- The programme was presented as a project to support young people and drew public attention as JAL’s first aircraft to feature a baseball player since Hideki Matsui in 2003.