ANA grew steadily through the 1960s, introducing jet services with Boeing 727s from Tokyo to Sapporo. It also bought Japan's first homegrown turboprop airliner, the YS-11. ANA was Japan's largest domestic, however, the Ministry of Transportation gave JAL a monopoly on international scheduled flights, which remained intact until 1986.
All Nippon Airways the larger Boeing 777-300 at Tokyo
ANA purchased widebody aircraft for the first time in 1972, six Lockheed L-1011s. The carrier had initially ordered McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, but cancelled the order at the last minute and switched to Lockheed. It was later revealed that Lockheed had indirectly bribed Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to force this switch. Boeing 747s were introduced on the Tokyo-Sapporo and Tokyo-Fukuoka routes in 1978.
ANA started scheduled international flights in March 1986, from Tokyo to Guam, Los Angeles and Washington, then in 1987 to Beijing, Hong Kong and Sydney, in 1989 to London and 1991 to Paris and New York. ANA joined the Star Alliance in October 1999.
By 2004 was in a luxurious position compared to many airlines: it had a surplus of slots due to the construction of new airports, so it started a fleet renewal plan that would replace some of its large aircraft with a greater number of smaller aircraft. As part of that ANA launch ANA Business Jet in 2007 using Boeing 737-700ER aircraft configured with 48 seats in two classes, from Tokyo to Guangzhou and Mumbai.
ANA has been pretty incident free throughout it's life, with the only serious fatal incidents occuring in 1958 and 1960 when Douglas DC-3s crashed, in 1966, when a Boeing 727 landing in Tokyo crashed into Tokyo Bay, with the loss of all passengers, and in 1971 when another Boeing 727 collided with an F-86 fighter. All 162 of those on board the Boeing 727 died.