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Jan 27, 2021 (newstodate): Hopes for seeing the launch of services by All Nippon Airlines, ANA, to Sweden's Stockholm Airport this summer are now shelved.
   ANA has published its plan for summer 2021 that sees the shelving of 16 international routes scheduled for the season, and the carrier has earlier decided to actually halve its long-haul fleet from 120 to only 60  aircraft, focusing on maintaining its traffic in the Asian markets.
   Already in November 2019, the Japanese carrier ANA, member of the Star Alliance, announced its decision 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 airline was to perform its first flight on the route on June 6, 2020, with three weekly rotations increasing to daily operations with Boeing 787-8 aircraft from June 21, 2020 - but then came the coronavirus..