Headed to Japan and looking for a cheap way to get Japanese domestic flights? As long as you don’t live in Japan, you’re eligible for a Japan Explorer Pass. Both of Japan’s airlines, ANA and JAL participate in this program, great! Here’s how to get it: Cost: one-way...
Peach has a nice sale, but it’s only cheapest ex-Japan. They fly between KIX Osaka Chitose and HKG. Tickets from KIX to HKG 3690 yen, which is less than 300 HKD. Travel dates are attractive, as it’s valid through the prime summer season and you must book by...
Peach Aviation launched their 5th anniversary sale today. They are calling them a Peachket (which I assume is a mash-up of Peach and ticket, weird.) They’re also calling themselves a flying train, weird again. Maybe Japanese just doesn’t translate to English well. Aside from the weird name, the sale...
Looking for a sweet deal? Vanilla Air has a sale now for flights between Hong Kong and Tokyo (Narita) starting at $378HK. I haven’t flown them myself yet, but I would expect tight seats, and ala carte service. Expect to buy any meals and pre-check-in seating assignments. Book by...
In interesting flight news, Air Asia will start new routes from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Osaka, Japan this coming June. Tickets just went on sale and have a intro price of RM499 / $149US or 12,900 yen/$99USD each way! It’s actually one flight from KUL to HNL with...
Japan is famed for service and the route between Tokyo and Hong Kong is competitive with lots of high paying passengers, so it is easy to have high expectations for Cathay’s lounge in Narita. However, I find it to be underwhelming. The lounge is located in terminal two....
Hope everyone is having a great holiday season. Wanted to write a few of my comments about the whole Hokkaido snow storm flight cancellation debacle and recommendations on how to handle similar situations in the future. In case you haven’t heard, due to 96cm of snow, flights were understandably...
The Korean Air lounge is located on the public side of the airport, before security. It is almost directly beneath the Korean Air checkin counters – one just needs to go down one flight of stairs. This location means that you need to allow sufficient time to clear...
Ticketing This was ticketed as part of a One World Multi Carrier award ticket. Checkin It’s always a time consuming hassle to get to Narita from central Tokyo and this time was no exception. The checkin was over in seconds, and the priority security lane which is near...
Ticketing This was ticketed as part of a One World Multi Carrier award ticket. Checkin I checked in in the morning at the Airport Express intown checkin and arrived at Hong Kong airport around an hour and a quarter before scheduled departure. I had been allocated seat 2A...
Remember the $100 flights to Japan offered by Peach Airline that started last night? Now the airline has furthur launch discounts for one way return flights from Japan! With just 1000 yen (HK$83 tax in) you can fly from Okinawa back to Hong Kong. And with just 2000...
Another discounts from low-cost carrier this week! This time you get one way tickets to Okinawa for the cheapest at HK$100 (HK$265) and Osaka from HK$150 (HK$315)! There are a limited amount of 1,000 tickets only for travels to Japan between October 25 and January 31 2016! *Update:...
