The JAL Group requested approval from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT), to increase the fuel surcharge placed on all international passenger tickets.

JAL originally introduced the fuel surcharge on international tickets in February 2007 in response to unprecedented rises in the cost of fuel. Since then continuing fuel cost increases have forced JAL to review the amount of fuel surcharges. This will be the third increase in international surcharges since their introduction.

JAL has taken a wide range of countermeasures to limit the full impact of the price increase including fuel hedging, fuel consumption reductions, and the introduction of more fuel-efficient small and medium-sized aircraft to its fleet.

Despite these measures, the company is again reluctantly obliged to ask its international passengers to bear part of the burden caused by the unprecedented increase in the price of fuel over the past few years.