Fire-repelling designs on the carbon-hulled Airbus A350 involved in January’s Tokyo crash, for example, combined with near-flawless execution by the JAL crew and rescue team to allow all 379 ...

Japan Airlines Airbus A350 collided with a Japan Coast Guard Bombardier Dash-8 at Haneda airport, causing a fire. All Airbus passengers and crew survived; five people on the coast guard plane died.

JAL has already started retiring the Boeing 777, replacing it with the more fuel-efficient Airbus A350-1000 on services from Tokyo to New York, Dallas and London, with Paris next. On the plus side ...

Eight airlines operate the A350-1000 to the US in February. They have 21 routes involving 15 airports countrywide. While Cathay Pacific presently uses the -1000 to the US, it does not plan to do ...