Article: Jetstar Restarts Flights to Japan

[AFF Editor]

Jetstar Restarts Flights to Japan is an article written by AFF editorial staff:

Jetstar Restarts Flights to Japan

Japan's border may still be closed to independent tourists, but that hasn't stopped Jetstar from restarting direct flights from Australia to Japan for the

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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[siri]

I have booked 2 business tickets to london via haneda in mid aug and can use transit for aus travellers , coming back we are supposed to spend one week in japan and hope border is open for us in mid sept.

 

[eastwest101]

This seems wildly optimistic given Australians can't travel freely to Japan at the moment (except as a transit to somewhere else), so it will be Japanese tourists inbound into Cairns, and while Cairns is pretty nice at this time of year, things will slow down later on in the year and Hawaii will become a much closer, cheaper and more convenient destination for Japanese tourists.

Without the inbound winter ski holidayers being able to confidently book travel into Japan for the next Japanese ski season, they might struggle a bit later on, unless the Japanese government pull their finger out.

 

[Anna]

Good news for Australia that Japanese tourists are back! I landed at HNL this week just after a planeload from Japan. The US officials speak Japanese!

 

[jastel]

I know someone who did CNS to NRT on the weekend...said there were only 38 people on the plane. Everything else was good they said.

Haven't noticed a heap more Japanese tourists here yet...

 

[RooFlyer]

Just got a Qantas 'Travel insider' e-mail headed:



Is it?

 

[ketsuzei]

Maybe if you get one of the coughpy tours they've been flogging... but for most intents and purposes, no.

Some positive signs, though. COVID-19 is about to be reclassified on par with the seasonal flu, and the cabinet reshuffle has been brought forward by a month or so. Lots of cough about Abe's state funeral, though, so reopening might not happen until after that (September 27).

Also starting to see more media stories about summer-vacationing Japanese tourists getting stuck abroad for an extra couple of weeks because they test positive before their flight home... to a nation where 1.4 million people are currently "recovering" in their own homes.

 

[gibboflyer]

Just got a Qantas 'Travel insider' e-mail headed:

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Is it?

I questioned that too- we have flights booked for September (reward J) and all our hotels booked as we had thought it would be open by then- sadly not. We have booked reward seats recently to Noumea just prior as we thought all hope was gone re: our Japan trip … then I saw the email from Qantas this morning!

 

[AIRwin]

 

[AIRwin]

And now it's 3K's turn to restart flights to Japan:

https://newsroom.jetstar.com/jetstar-asia-returns-to-japan/