OREANDA-NEWS. May 18, 2011. All Nippon Airways and Eznis Airways today announced that the two airlines have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement.

Keisuke Okada, ANA Executive Vice President, Alliances and International Affairs and Tserenpuntsag Boldbaatar, Chairman of Newcom Group, parent company of Eznis Airways, met in Ulanbaatar yesterday to sign the Strategic Cooperation Agreement.

The airlines have agreed to explore bilateral cooperation in a broad range of areas such as management, operations, and charter flight services between Mongolia and Japan to aid the long term development of air transportation between two countries and beyond.

The airlines will now start discussing further details of the partnership but the cooperation will benefit customers of both countries by providing them with greater choice and flexibility.

Keisuke Okada, ANA's Executive Vice President, said, “I believe that the strategic partnership between our two companies will allow the aviation industry to play its role in the development of the Mongolia-Japan relationship. The nature of our long term partnership will also significantly allow ANA to maintain our competitive advantage in the Asian market.”

Munkhsukh Sukhbaatar, Eznis CEO, said: “I am very excited about the changes and progress we will be able to make following this partnership. Furthermore our partnership will create fantastic opportunities for other sectors of Mongolia's economy.”