As Kansai International Airport partially reopened Friday with a few domestic flights after being flooded by a typhoon, the central government and the region were pushing forward with a proposal to temporarily route some international flights to Osaka's Itami airport and Kobe Airport.
A total of 19 flights — 17 passenger flights by Kansai airport-based low-cost carrier Peach Aviation, and two Japan Airlines cargo flights — took off and landed on the airport's undamaged Runway B. They parked at the Terminal 2 building, which was also largely unscathed when Typhoon Jebi flooded the airport on Tuesday.
Later on Friday, Peach Aviation said that 12 international flights from Kansai airport would resume on Saturday.