2017. 4. 17
Travel to Hawaii with a Family of Sea Turtles! Just a Hop Away on ANA’s Double-deck, Wide-body A380 Aircraft Beginning in 2019

FLYING HONU, this airplane with the design of adorable sea turtles, will fly the skies between Tokyo and Honolulu starting from the spring of 2019.

The design, which was awarded the grand prize in an open competition that drew 2,197 submissions from around the world, has a special meaning behind it.

Sea turtles, called “honu” in the Hawaiian language, are beloved by the Hawaiian people as sacred creatures that can bring happiness and prosperity to those who see them. The FLYING HONU represents our hope that everyone who flies on it is blessed with happiness.

Chihiro Masuoka, who submitted the winning design, comments, “My image of Hawaii is a place like the underwater palace in the folktale of Urashima Taro, where the sky and ocean are blue, and every day is filled with fun. I chose the turtle as my design motif because Urashima Taro traveled to the palace on the back of a turtle.”

FLYING HONU will fly on the world’s largest aircraft, the double-deck, wide-body Airbus A380. We hope that even passengers who often find air travel confining will enjoy their flight in its spacious interior. We can’t wait for FLYING HONU to debut in the spring of 2019!


Click below to see a video of the announcement of
the winning design