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Apr 24, 2020 (newstodate): Sweden will have to wait longer for the start of services on the planned new route connecting Tokyo Haneda Airport and Stockholm Airport.
   The operation by All Nippon Airlines was slated to commence with the first flight on June 6, 2020, with three weekly rotations, increasing to daily operations with Boeing 787-8 aircraft from June 21, 2020.
   Then came the coronavirus..
   ANA has now announced that the opening of the route has been postponed, and no new launch date has yet been settled.
   Already in November 2019, the Japanese carrier ANA, member of the Star Alliance, announced its plans to launch direct non-stop services beginning summer 2020 between Tokyo Haneda Airport and Stockholm Airport, ending 30 years of absence of direct flights, long sought-after between Sweden and Japan.  
    The volume of passengers on flights between Sweden and Japan expanded by 50 percent in 2019, and the new route would be supported by strong needs among businesses trading between Japan and Sweden, with some 150 Swedish companies established in Japan and some 160 Japanese companies established in Sweden.