Around 100 people who joined Japan Airlines Co. as pilot candidates but never had a chance to work in the air due to the airline's 2010 bankruptcy are finally making their debuts on domestic flights.

The bankruptcy led JAL to substantially cut its flight routes and freeze pilot recruitment and training. Of its employees who joined JAL as pilot candidates, some left the airline to become pilots at other companies and others who stayed at JAL worked on the ground, such as in the section on mileage management and the regional office administration department.

After the airline rehabilitated itself with taxpayers' money, it resumed pilot training in October 2012 and started hiring pilot candidates again in April 2015.