Source: News.mn, ANA Public Relations                        Date: 18 May, 2011

Eznis Airways and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have signed a long term agreement of cooperation and strategic partnership. A ceremony at the Eznis office last Thursday to mark the signing was attended by, among others, Prime Minister S.Batbold, Minister for Foreign Affairs G.Zandanshatar and ANA Executive Vice President Keisuke Okada.  Newcom Group is the parent company of Eznis Airways.

The airlines have agreed to explore bilateral cooperation in a broad range of areas such as management, operations, and charter flight services between Mongolia and Japan to aid the long term development of air transportation between two countries and beyond. The airlines will discuss further details of the partnership in the coming days.

Mr. Okada said in a brief speech that the strategic partnership between the two companies will allow “the aviation industry to play its role in the development of the Mongolia-Japan relationship”, and will also “allow ANA to retain its competitive advantage in the Asian market”. All Nippon Airways is the eighth largest airline in the world by revenue and the largest in Japan by passenger number. Mr. S. Munkhsukh, Eznis CEO, added, “I am very excited about the changes and progress we will be able to make following this partnership. Furthermore our partnership will create fantastic opportunities for other sectors of Mongolia’s economy.”