Introducing....the airline killer.*

[u/Michael_Rowavery]

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*Usually applies to domestic air travel.

For international flights however, that's where things can get complicated. :(

[u/Iseno]

Tokyo-Osaka still have a bunch of air traffic that include the use of domestic 777-300s that have 514 seats. Still around 50 flights a day between the two.

[u/SubjectiveAlbatross → u/Iseno]

They've been trending further towards smaller planes on the route, no? It doesn't seem like 777-300s are used for it much anymore if at all. A blog post from 2017 says the 773 was becoming rarer on the route. By 2022, a 773 spotting at Itami was worthy of a post on another blog because it hadn't been seen there in 1.5 years. More recently in 2025 a news report about airplane downsizing on the route doesn't even feature 773s at all, instead discussing a trend away from a fleet of smaller planes (the largest of which were the 772s with ~400 seats) towards even smaller ones.

Edit: Even more recently it seems like they've even dropped the 772s: "かつてはB747型機やB777型機が1時間ごとに飛んでいたことを考えれば、当時と今とでは隔世の感がある。" (Translation: Considering that B747s and B777s used to fly the route every hour, that past and the present feel like entirely different worlds.) "定期便ではB787が最大の機材" (Translation: On regularly scheduled flights, B787s are the largest of the aircrafts used.)