• Any AU or JP airline can fly between any international airport in Australia and Japan, other then HND, as much as they want. Nothing preventing NH from flying NRT-BNE or NRT-MEL.

  • This time appears to be a northern winter runway slot availability issue. It might move back to the ~8am departure slot later.

  • Alliance membership has nothing to do with any partnerships. Just because two airlines are in oneworld, doesn't mean they don't have to compete on a route they both happen to serve.If the VA arrangement with Hawaiian ends, it won't be because of oneworld membership. It will be because Alaskan too...

  • If VA doesn't want to lose their HND slot to QF, they need a long range wide body to operate to HND from an AU capital city fairly quickly (operating in the next 3-4 months).

  • The idea of flying to SEA would be to hook into the AS hub and get onward connections, as they do with AA at DFW.

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  • JR East Timetables

    Sep 07, 2022, 07:13 PM

    Hyperdia, which most people used to look up Japanese transit options and timetables, discontinued showing the train timetables in April.It seems these are the remaining options:https://www.japan-guide.com/news/0057.html

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    Jul 15, 2022, 05:11 PM

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  • Japan entry

    Jul 15, 2022, 05:00 PM

    Japan hit 10 million total cases yesterday. Their daily cases have been raising each day for the past 2 weeks. The newest daily figures are about the same as the peak of the last wave in Feb (~100k/day).The government is considering adding new measures but have thus far ruled out new restrictions...

  • Japan entry

    Jul 13, 2022, 06:01 PM

    I haven't seen/heard any new rumors about Japans border since they started the package tour thing.Everyone has been expecting that nothing will be considered with the election, which was this past weekend.They've delayed a domestic travel campaign with the local case loads starting to increase ag...

  • IATA Vaccination Passport

    Aug 31, 2021, 09:30 PM

    I would hope that any government or company that requires vaccine evidence will have an alternative way that doesn't rely on assuming that everyone will always have a working smart phone that is compatible with their chosen app.

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