A disposable wearing article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, including: a skin-facing surface; a non-skin-facing surface opposite to the skin-facing surface; front and rear waist panels (20, 30) defining front and rear waist regions (11, 12), respectively, and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; a crotch panel defining a crotch region and extending from the crotch region into the front waist region and the rear waist region; and the front and rear waist regions being joined to each other along a pair of seams cantinually extending in the longitudinal direction so as to define a waist-opening and a pair of leg-openings; the disposable wearing article is characterized in that: the crotch panel includes an absorbent structure, front and rear end flaps (45, 46) lying outboard of the absorbent structure in the longitudinal direction, a body-side liner lying on an absorbing surface or the absorbent structure, a leakage-barrier sheet placed on a bottom surface of the absorbent structure and a containment sheet adapted to cover the leakage-barrier sheet and to form containment cuffs outboard of the absorbent structure as viewed in the transverse direction, wherein the front and rear end flaps (45,46) are defined by at least the body-side liner, the leakage-farrier sheet in front and rear ends (41A, 41B) of the absorbent structure and the containment sheet, a first region having part of the absorbent structure and the front end flap and overlapping with the skin-facing surface of the front waist panel and a second region having part of the absorbent structure and the rear end flap and overlapping with the skin-facing surface of the rear waist panel; the first and second regions (55, 56) are joined to the front and rear waist panels (20, 30) by means of first and second joining zones (57, 58), respectively, wherein the first and second joining zones (57, 58) have a plurality of joining sub-zones (57A, 57B; 58A, 58B) spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction, respectively; the front waist panel has an elastic region at least overlapping with the first region and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; the rear waist panel has an inelastic region lying in the second region and overlapping with the absorbent structure and an elastic region lying outboard of the inelastic region as viewed in the transverse direction and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; and the first region is formed along the joining sub-zones (57A, 57B) with a plureality of convexities for defining air conduits between each of the plurality of convexities under contractibility of the elastic region of the front waist region in the transverse direction and extending in the longitudinal direction and spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction. the crotch panel includes an absorbent structure, front and rear end flaps (45, 46) lying outboard of the absorbent structure in the longitudinal direction, a body-side liner lying on an absorbing surface or the absorbent structure, a leakage-barrier sheet placed on a bottom surface of the absorbent structure and a containment sheet adapted to cover the leakage-barrier sheet and to form containment cuffs outboard of the absorbent structure as viewed in the transverse direction, wherein the front and rear end flaps (45,46) are defined by at least the body-side liner, the leakage-farrier sheet in front and rear ends (41A, 41B) of the absorbent structure and the containment sheet, a first region having part of the absorbent structure and the front end flap and overlapping with the skin-facing surface of the front waist panel and a second region having part of the absorbent structure and the rear end flap and overlapping with the skin-facing surface of the rear waist panel; the first and second regions (55, 56) are joined to the front and rear waist panels (20, 30) by means of first and second joining zones (57, 58), respectively, wherein the first and second joining zones (57, 58) have a plurality of joining sub-zones (57A, 57B; 58A, 58B) spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction, respectively; the front waist panel has an elastic region at least overlapping with the first region and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; the rear waist panel has an inelastic region lying in the second region and overlapping with the absorbent structure and an elastic region lying outboard of the inelastic region as viewed in the transverse direction and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; and the first region is formed along the joining sub-zones (57A, 57B) with a plureality of convexities for defining air conduits between each of the plurality of convexities under contractibility of the elastic region of the front waist region in the transverse direction and extending in the longitudinal direction and spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction.