expired Posted by SDkimchi • Oct 14, 2024
Oct 14, 2024 4:22 PM
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expired Posted by SDkimchi • Oct 14, 2024
Oct 14, 2024 4:22 PM
ZIPAIR: Round-Trip NonStop Flight: Los Angeles to Tokyo
(Travel Oct 27 to Dec 11 2024)from $431.20
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So realistically, this is a $500 or so fare with just a carry on and no seat selection. Add another $80 to $100 for a seat if you are traveling with family. The site quoted around $152 roundtrip for seat selection and upgraded 15kg carry on. That is the bare minimum I would have to spend flying with my spouse and kid or risk being seated randomly on an 11hr flight. They only seat children 7+ with adults on Vancouver flights.
So for me, this is a $584 per ticket or $1752 for the three of us. Still a decent deal, but not what it looks like on the surface.
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Miami to Tokyo is double this and that's considered cheap according to Google Flights trends.
Definitely not as bad as Spirit, but you'll still probably hate yourself for the 11-hour domestic flight and the jet lag that comes with going from LAX to Tokyo.
That being said, I flew to Tokyo last year for $700-ish and I thought that was a smoking deal. $400's are as low as I've seen them go, and I'm eyeing flights at least a couple times a week.
Definitely worth it if you want to go to Japan on a budget.
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So realistically, this is a $500 or so fare with just a carry on and no seat selection. Add another $80 to $100 for a seat if you are traveling with family. The site quoted around $152 roundtrip for seat selection and upgraded 15kg carry on. That is the bare minimum I would have to spend flying with my spouse and kid or risk being seated randomly on an 11hr flight. They only seat children 7+ with adults on Vancouver flights.
So for me, this is a $584 per ticket or $1752 for the three of us. Still a decent deal, but not what it looks like on the surface.
An empty carryon already weighs around 3kg, so that leaves you with 4kgs or under 9lbs for all your belongings.
They weigh you carry on and put a sticker on it, so impossible to bypass it for most people.
Also, if it weighs more than 7kg, you have to buy a full check in (30kg) bag as you can only upgrade the carry on weight to 15kg 24hrs before check in.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the 7kg allowance is for everything that you carry with you to the plane. This includes your purse/backpack/pillow/carry on bag/etc. Will be impossible to fit everything for a trip to Japan in just 15lbs (7kg).
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I currently have a flight with ANA a little past midnight in November. This is my first time traveling to Tokyo and first time traveling abroad in over 30 years, so I'm not sure how to adjust to a different time zone that's drastically different. I figure leaving past midnight will allow me to get sleep during the flight and land early morning in Tokyo, and as a result readjusting to the different time zone.