Since July, same-sex partners can register as family members and award users under ANA’s mileage service program, “ANA Card Family Miles.”

We will also change restroom and multi-purpose restroom signs in ANA Lounges and ANA Suite Lounges at Haneda, Narita and Itami airports to make them more inclusive and accessible to our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, or LGBT customers.

At ANA, we actively promote diversity and inclusion towards making a better, more accepting world.

ANA is also using the rainbow stripes as a symbol to show that we are LGBT friendly, accepting of diversity of sexuality and all human beings.

Anyone is free to use this universal facility

In addition to these new services, we have also become an official supporter of the Get in Touch Association this spring. Their mission is to create a truly blended society where no one is excluded, and is now part of our diversity and inclusion program. Volunteers from ANA joined the Get in Touch members in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2016 event during Golden Week (a holiday week from end of April to early May in Japan), which celebrates diversity and promotes an open and positive world for all people.

The event was held in the Shibuya / Harajuku area of Tokyo where many young people gather. The group followed a truck that played beautiful songs of the blind artist, Hirari Sato, while they held signs and marched along the Shibuya streets. Participants from many countries, who are LGBT, disabled, and those who support them, all blended together and exchanged high fives as they enjoyed marching together.

ANA will continue to improve our own services, and will work together with likeminded people outside our company as well, towards creating a more inclusive world.

About ANA Card Family Miles (Japanese only):

https://www.ana.co.jp/amc/reference/anacard/familymile.html

About Registration of Awards Users (Japanese only):

https://www.ana.co.jp/amc/reference/tukau/note.html

About Tokyo Rainbow Pride & video of the parade (Japanese only):

http://tokyorainbowpride.com/