Lao Airlines to launch Vientiane-Kumamoto service in November

This is one of the oddest new routes I've heard about. I wonder how popular it's going to be.

Not so strange. Kumamoto needs agricultural workers, they will come in on student or tourist visa’s and work in Kumamoto where the local authorities will look the other way.

This is brilliant news, Laos is a place everyone should visit. That said, it’s isolation from mainstream tourism is one of the reasons that it’s such a great place.

I might give that flight a try.

I am now in Luangprabang, it's so attracting for me to fly from here to Kumamoto.

Wouldn't Tokyo or Osaka make more sense? This is a pretty remote outpost...