ANA : to Celebrate Valentine's Day with Complimentary Chocolates for All Passengers

• •Flight attendants will pass out 150 thousand exclusive ANA Chocolates on board Feb. 14 flights.

TOKYO, Feb. 7, 2019 -All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's largest and 5-star airline for six consecutive years, is commemorating Valentine's Day with a series of exclusive chocolates from some of the world's most respected chocolatiers. This tradition dates back to 2014 and is in keeping with ANA's belief in the importance of providing top-tier customer service that makes passengers feel at home on every flight.

Passengers traveling in First and Business Classes on America, Europe and India routes will receive a special 'Orangette' chocolate from world-renowned chocolatier Pierre Hermé Paris. The French company has earned a reputation for excellence, being dubbed the 'Picasso of pastry'. The limited edition Valentine's Day Orangette chocolate has a sweet and sour orange confit-base and is coated with bitter and milk chocolates, creating a well-balanced yet refined taste. This special Valentine's Day chocolate represents the second time that ANA has collaborated with Pierre Hermé Paris.

In addition, all domestic and international passengers traveling in all classes will receive special chocolates from Japan's Meiji THE Chocolate. This year's chocolate will be 'Comfort Bitter,' a variety made with roasted cacao beans. Comfort Bitter is deeply roasted at a high temperature to bring out its strong cacao flavor, giving it a deep nutty taste.

'We will offer our passengers chocolates as a way to make their Valentine's Day flights just a little more memorable,' said Yutaka Ito, Executive Vice President of ANA. 'This holiday collaboration is important to us, so ANA has selected well-known chocolatiers that share its values and are devoted to creating the best possible product for consumers.'

Chocolate service may be cancelled on some flights due to flight conditions, and is unavailable on the following flights:
NH179/828 for Pierre Hermé Paris; NH179/880/808/806/828/834/816/804/802/836/872/820/926/956/964/922/968/972/938/948/934/822/862/824 for Meiji THE Chocolate.

Contact:ANA Corporate Communications, TEL [phone], [e-mail]

About ANA
Following the 'Inspiration of Japan' high quality of service, ANA has been awarded the respected 5-Star rating every year since 2013 from SKYTRAX. ANA is the only Japanese airline to win this prestigious designation six years in a row. Additionally, ANA has been recognized by Air Transport World as 'Airline of the Year' three times in the past 10 years - 2007, 2013 and 2018, becoming one of the few airlines winning this prestigious award for multiple times.
ANA was founded in 1952 with two helicopters and has become the largest airline in Japan, as well as one of the most significant airlines in Asia, operating 78 international routes and 118 domestic routes. ANA offers a unique dual hub model which enables passengers to travel to Tokyo and connect through the two airports in the metropolitan Tokyo, NARITA and HANEDA, to various destinations throughout Japan, and also offers same day connections between various North American, Asian and Chinese cities.
ANA has been a member of Star Alliance since 1999 and has joint venture partnerships with United Airlines, Lufthansa German Airlines, Swiss International Airlines and Austrian Airlines.
Besides the full service and award winner carrier ANA, the ANA Group has two LCCs as consolidated subsidiaries, Vanilla Air Inc. and Peach Aviation Limited. The ANA Group carried 53.8 million passengers in FY2017, has approximately 39,000 employees and a fleet of 260 aircraft. ANA is a proud launch customer and the biggest operator of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
For more information, please refer to the following link.
https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/