Japan Airlines has cut President Mitsuko Tottori’s pay by 30% for two months after two cabin attendants drank during a layover and delayed a Hiroshima-to-Haneda flight by about 40 minutes.
The transport ministry issued a stern reprimand and ordered the carrier to submit a prevention plan by 17 July, putting JAL’s safety management and crew-monitoring controls back under scrutiny. The chief attendant was dismissed and the other attendant suspended, while board-level pay reductions followed the incident.
JAL has now tightened layover alcohol rules. The next test is whether its compliance system can stop repeat breaches before they reach the flight deck.