Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (????????, Nihon Koku Kabushiki-gaisha, JAL) is the flag carrier of Japan. JAL is headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its main hubs are Tokyo's Narita International Airport and Haneda Airport, as well as Osaka's Kansai International Airport and Itami Airport. The JAL group of which it forms part include Japan Airlines as well as J-Air, Japan Air Commuter, Japan Transocean Air, and Ryukyu Air Commuter for domestic feeder services, and JAL Cargo for cargo and mail services. JAL group operations include scheduled and non-scheduled international and domestic passenger and cargo services to 220 destinations in 35 countries worldwide, including codeshares. The group has a fleet of 279 aircraft. In the fiscal year ended 31 March 2009, the airline group carried over 52 million passengers and over 1.1 million tons of cargo and mail. Japan Airlines, J-Air, JAL Express, and Japan Transocean Air are members of the Oneworld airline alliance network. JAL was established in 1951 as a government-owned business and became the national airline of Japan in 1953.[6] After over three decades of service and expansion, the airline was fully privatised in 1987. In 2002, the airline merged with Japan Air System (JAS), Japan's third-largest airline, and became the sixth-largest airline in the world by passengers carried. Japan Airlines is currently an official sponsor of Shimizu S-Pulse, and Consadole Sapporo. History Regulated era Founding JAL Stewardesses in front of Douglas DC-3 on August 27, 1951 A black-and-white photograph of a Martin 2-0-2 aircraft with six cabin crew standing in front of the aircraft Japan Airlines flight attendants in front of Martin 2-0-2 Mokusei (???) on the occasion of the airline's inaugural flight, 25 October 1951 A black-and-white photograph of a JAL Douglas DC-6 A Japan Airlines Douglas DC-6A (named City of Nara) at San Francisco International Airport in March 1954 The original Japan Airlines Co. was established on 1 August 1951, w