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Star Flyer will resume regular international flights to and from Japan next year, anticipating traffic from Taiwan as domestic business passenger numbers languish.

The regional airline, which is based on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, has not flown scheduled flights on international routes since March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We will restart international flights sometime in 2026," President Osamu Machida told Nikkei. "We want to take advantage of Kyushu's proximity to Asia."

More competition in international routes, the better.