After launching the Doraemon Jet, Japan Airlines is trying to boost its business to rid itself of its financial problems by collaborating with another group of highly popular Japanese boy band – Arashi 嵐.

According to news reports, JAL has commissioned a single “Arashi Jet”. It will be a Boeing 777 where the fuselage is decorated with a 5-meter-tall, 20-meter-wide seal bearing the images of Arashi’s members, along with the title of their latest album, “Boku no Miteiru Fuukei 僕の見ている風景.”

The plane will take its first flight on Sunday at 1:30pm, flying from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to Osaka. The plane is expected to be primarily used for domestic flights, serving the routes between Haneda and three other airports: New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Itami Airport in Osaka, and Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka. JAL plans to use the plane until January 2011.

In addition to the Arashi Jet, JAL will be selling the “Boku no Miteiru Fuukei” album (with a specially designed cover) in-flight on several of its domestic routes.

Source: MSN Sankei and Sanspo via Tokyograph

I guess the reason why JAL chose Arashi is because their recent album Boku no Miteiru Fuukei 僕の見ている風景 is the top selling albumn of 2010, where it had debuted at number-one on the Oricon weekly album chart, selling around 731,000 copies.