Dorama 2019

Runway 24 (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)

• Genre: Romance, Airline, Job, Family,
• Date Released: July 2019
• Origin: Japan
• Dorama: XX Episodes

Cast:

• Aya Asahina as Momoko Inoue
• Atsuhiro Inukai as Daisuke Umino
• Shunya Shiraishi as Tetsuya Katsuki
• Hasegawa Tomuharo as the Captain
• Ino Manabu as the Despatch

 

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Episode 1

Shunya Shiraishi really looks gorgeous in this drama.

Remember him as Uehara in Good Morning Call?!!

Anyway, the story revolved around a girl who dreamed of becoming a pilot like her father who had passed away ten years ago but his legend still lives on.

The girl is Momoko who is now a co-pilot in a low budget airline called ‘Peach’

Momoko is extraordinary in that she goes beyond her duties,  She was more like an airline assistant, helping passengers with their tickets and directing then where to go and even help out the actual airline assistant to do their job and control rowdy and unruly passengers.

There was a passenger who was going mental.  He was a wrestler who was so annoyed to find out that everything that is usually available as a standard in a regular airline is paid piece by piece as needed in a budget airline.  And there was no blanket, he said he cannot fly without a blanket.

Momoko explained that extras would put the fare up and as a budget airline they had to provide the bare minimum.

In the end, the captain came down to the see the commotion and explained that as pilots their duty is to bring passengers safely from A to B.    He also said that he had complete confidence with his co-pilot, Momoko.

The passengers arrived safely to their destination and Momoko was there again asking what their experience was like.

A tall, handsome guy appeared before Momoko who told her that she would not make a good pilot.

Momoko was shocked and complained about it to her boyfriend, Daisuke.

The next day, the office manager announced that to anticipate the coming Olympics, Peach engaged another personnel, a co-pilot.  Then in walked Tetsuya, the guy who told Momoko that she was going to be a crap pilot.

Episode 2

Tetsuya was welcome by the group and even joyfully arranged a welcome party for him.

Everyone was having a good time, eating and dining when Momoko called their attention that the guest of honour was not there.

Momoko called him on the phone but he refused to attend.

The next day, Momoko was giving him the evil eye.

They were plotting their flight when Tetsuya kept questioning the despatch.  Tetsuya works by the book and was frustrated that his basic questions are being ignored.

The thing is no one questions the despatch.  He has a weird affinity with the weather.  By looking at the sky/clouds, he can predict bad or good weather or tail-end of a typhoon, etc.

Tetsuya thinks that that was all hocus pocus.

Momoko was flying with the captain when one of the passengers had a heart attack.  They had to go back but there was bad weather where they had to go.

The despatch looked into the sky and ably guided the plane to safety.

The captain told Momoko that the despatch was a bit standoffish and does not mingle because he wanted to focus all his attention on the weather without any form of distraction.

Tetsuya was on his way to his own flight when he met Momoko.

He told her that he still does not believe.