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By DAVID KOENIG NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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GBR48
Pandemic logic: Business customers are the ones most able to operate virtually. Tourists cannot operate virtually. You have to be there for tourism. The business customers will be allowed to fly, the tourists will not.
Pandemic logic: Nations will still operate blocks to stop people who are tested as covid free from crossing an artificial line on a map from one country with delta to another with delta.
Pandemic logic: Fully jabbed people with clear tests will still have to quarantine, in a nation bubbling with unvaccinated people where covid is rife.
We are all getting scammed. It's so obvious, it is embarrassing.
Get vaccinated, wear a mask and maintain some personal space. The more you do, the sooner governments will run out of 'reasons' to lock us all in.
Commodore Perry
Righto.
What are you going to fly instead, Southwest?
knittyelf
Cheap international fares? Where? The flight from Tokyo to DC used to be around $1300-1400, but now it’s hard to find a basic economy seat for under $2000.
Commodore Perry
zichiToday 01:22 pm JST
Not the full 14 yet. Why, you need something?
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zichiToday 03:00 pm JST
Would love to enter US and Japan and other countries easily with proof of vaccination.
Japan needs to get its act together---no social distancing at the airports, and there were affected people in those lines.
Commodore Perry
No hotel coming from the US having been there 14 days straight.
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RecklessToday 09:22 am JST
I fly Star Alliance and Oneworld more, but for domestic US, I think Delta is the best.
Newer planes, better seats, friendlier service, and the Delta One suite coming to Japan is as good as ANA's new biz room.
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zichiToday 12:19 pm JST
My driver told me the farthest he took a customer was Nagasaki, for 220,000 yen.
Location app is no problem if you tell in advance where you will be staying.
fxgai
Haha, but the rich don’t pay their fair share now do they, haha
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RecklessToday 09:18 am JST
I snagged a flight and got the three seat section to myself on one trip so could lie down. Others, I took biz.
It was 2.5 hours for me at Haneda; and btw I got an email from the quarantine folks telling me someone on my flight had tested positive. Nice. Didn't tell me where that person was sitting. And of course that person was in close proximity to everyone else meandering through the lines at Haneda upon arrival.
Shouldn't I be eligible for a covid test here?
knittyelfToday 09:33 am JST
True, prices are higher now, during peak season. I had bought a one way from Japan, so upon return I was buying tickets to Japan.
Also, a little trick you might know of, but buy points, and then upgrade on one of the Japanese airlines---biz class for under $1500 one way on some routes.
And, for the longer trip home, go through Europe; stop in FRA or LIS.
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zichiToday 02:19 pm JST
Correct--my fourth, but 2 of those quarantines did not go the full 14 days as I left Japan again before the full 14 days..
I do remote work; otherwise it would not be possible to take off all that time.
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zichiToday 02:45 pm JST
Yes. Got the swab shoved down the the nose each time. Hired car to go to airport.
And the first time I left in January, I asked immigration at Narita about such case where I return but leave before the 14 days, and was told for them, there is no issue, but it might be something that matters to quarantine. At that time though, there was no checking in on apps all day; I think they started that middle March.
Also, I was not asked at the airport if I was vaccinated; strange as I thought that might be information quarantine would want to know.
Regardless, I am leaving Japan again in August.
Commodore Perry
This is a great time to travel. International biz class is wide open. Sometimes I'm the only one in the cabin.
Commodore Perry
This past year has been the best for traveling by air. Vacant airports and airplanes, and cheap fares even for biz class seats about,
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zichiToday 02:02 pm JST
I have been to the US and back 4 times this year. Most recently returning last week.
Got shots end of April, then 3 weeks later in May.
Also, once you re-enter Japan and install the necessary apps, the subsequent entry procedure takes a little less time.
Longest time at airport was at Narita--3 hours off the plane and out of customs. Most recently 2 and a half hours at Haneda.