Ana Global LLC history

In the following decade, ANA grew steadily, adding Vickers Viscounts, Fokker F27s to its fleet and introducing jet services in 1965, thanks to the Boeing 727.

Boeing 747s joined the fleet in 1978, and Boeing 767s were introduced five years later.

ANA joined the Star Alliance in October 1999.

In August 2009, thanks to an agreement between ANA and Mori Building City Air Services, ANA First Class passengers arriving back in Tokyo were offered a complimentary luxury helicopter ride from Narita Airport to the heart of Tokyo in just 30 minutes.

In September 2010, ANA decided to change 15 of its current orders for the Boeing 787-8 aircraft to the 787-9 model.

On July 25, 2011, ANA operated its first revenue flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as an international charter flight from Narita Airport to Hong Kong.

In June 2013, ANA resumed services with its Boeing 787 fleet, following the successful completion of a series of safety checks, test flights and battery system modifications.

On August 7, 2014, ANA became the world’s first airline to operate the new stretched version of the Boeing Dreamliner on domestic Japanese routes with the 787-9 variant of the aircraft.

In 2015, ANA, the airline with the world’s largest Boeing B787 fleet, placed orders for three Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners, becoming the first airline in Asia to operate the entire family of 787 Dreamliners.

In January 2016, ANA ordered three Airbus A380s, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.

Currently, Ana Lucia Araujo is a full professor in the Department of History in the historically black Howard University in Washington DC. In 2017, she was nominated as member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO’s Slave Route Project.