Today’s Airfare of the Day goes to Japan Airlines and their basic season business class advance purchase round trip fares between New York (JFK/EWR), USA and Hanoi (HAN), Vietnam.
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This fare is being discussed on FlyerTalk (access here).
Fare Details:
Seasonal restrictions:
Permitted 01JAN through 15MAY or 01 AUG through 30NOV on the outbound transpacific sectors.
Travel restrictions: Valid for travel commencing on/before 04NOV 21.
Sales restrictions: No sales end date.
- Fare: JAL (JL) XLE08MN0 NYC to HAN.
- Booking class: X.
- Day/time restrictions: -/-
- Advanced reservation/ticketing restrictions: -/-
- Price: from $2,366 ($2,135 base fare + taxes & surcharges).
- Minimum stay: 12 hours.
- Maximum stay: 12 months.
- Stopovers: 1 stopover permitted in each direction at $100 each.
- Cancellations: charge $500 for cancel/refund; charge $800 for no-show.
- Changes: changes permitted for reissue/revalidation.
- Airline’s COVID19 policy: access here.
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Your example doesn’t work, NO ONE except Japanese citizens and resident card holders can take a HND to NRT or v.v. transit. Actually I’m not sure even we can do it, currently until the vaccine passports are issued we’re supposed to go directly home or a hotel and stay there for 2 weeks. Have to route 100% via one airport or the other, foreigners are not allowed into Japan and the government has made it very clear quite recently that’s not changing anytime soon. Japan will be giving us vaccination passports to re-enter Japan but have no immediate plans to accept them from any other country.
The good thing on this fare as I mentioned on Flyertalk already is that it books in to X which credits fully to most programs including AA, unlike the I fares often used for promo fares that get a serious whack in EQM and EQD earnings. This all assuming you get get into Vietnam. I know Indonesia does allow people to enter on business visas and there is a very similar fare to CGK, not sure Vietnam is being quite as flexible yet.
Nice analysis! I’ve contacted my TA and she confirms that, at this point, international itineraries that include connections requiring HND-NRT transfers would not be possible, given that: (1) passengers must be formally admitted into Jpn to be able to transfer between the two airports; and (2) as a result, once admitted, passengers are prohibited from connecting to another flight w/o the required 14-day quarantine or w/o pre- and post-flight health clearance. Finally, and most importantly, foreign nationals aren’t permitted to enter Jpn in the first place!
Also, Vietnam seems to have suspended the entry of foreign nationals indefinitely (unless you are in the exempt category—e.g., diplomats, substantial investment in Vietnam, etc.). JAL will still issue such tickets because regulations continuously change. But, if the regulations do not change and we can’t actually use the tickets, my TA stresses that we are free to change flights w/o penalty, although you will have to pay the difference in fare—which, in this case, could easily be double or even more. Since JAL continues to waive cancellation fees into April 2022, though, I suppose we could still get our money back in the worst scenario…
So, while this fare is SUPER exciting, there are just too many uncertainties as to whether we might actually be able to take advantage of this offer realistically.