Will you get your travel to Japan approved?

[Voyages]

With the current situation in Japan and the recent DFAT upgrade on travel to Tokyo, one might re-assess their travel plans.

My recent travel application has not been approved by the boss as it involved a week in Japan (albeit southern Japan).

In your own case, will you still consider going to Japan (minus Tokyo and northern Honsu) in say 2 months time? And has your company/boss taken any precaution measure(s) to delay any business trips to Japan at all?

 

[Timtammi]

I'm supposed to be travelling to Tokyo in mid may for a week on business. I'm the boss so I make the travel policy and in this case will decide whether or not I will go. I have prepaid accommodation and flights already in place.

I checked my travel insurance policy (pretty vague and unclear), flights (JQ currently waiving fare conditions for flights up to April 11) and accommodation (prepaid through hotels.com but fully refundable).

Right now I'm taking a wait and see approach. If the do not travel advice stays in place closer to the time I won't go. Hopefully if that is the case JQ will also extend the travel period covered in their waiving of fare conditions. I'm booked in *class but I think it was a promo fare so not usually refundable I think.

Cheers

 

[notzac]

We have a travel advisory recommending that "Employees should defer travel to Japan for the time being", but not outright denying travel authorisations (though I have no idea how that would pan out in practice).

 

[Voyages]

Our current organisation-wide policy is 'no travel to Japan till July' - so I am told.

 

[wingspan]

I'm planning to be in Japan for the whole of June. I was going to take time off of work for it, so my organisation will be fine with it. But I'm more worried about whether the other half will approve or not

 

[sietes]

A little off topic but not totally, I am due to be travelling to LHR on JL departing April 7 with a mandatory overnight at Narita, returning May 5 with a two day/ one night stopover, intending to spend that in downtown Tokyo (staying in Ginza)

I would be interested to see what others would be thingking if they were in the same situation, and what alterations to their journey they would look to make.

PS This is a holiday a long time in the making to spend a couple of weeks in the UK with my dad and spend a couple of weeks travelling around on my own with a lot of stuff pre-paid, so cancelling is not really an option (unless things get meltdown bad of course)

Appreciate any feedback.

 

[Heleigh]

I'm supposed to be travelling to Tokyo in mid may for a week on business. I'm the boss so I make the travel policy and in this case will decide whether or not I will go. I have prepaid accommodation and flights already in place.

I checked my travel insurance policy (pretty vague and unclear), flights (JQ currently waiving fare conditions for flights up to April 11) and accommodation (prepaid through hotels.com but fully refundable).

Right now I'm taking a wait and see approach. If the do not travel advice stays in place closer to the time I won't go. Hopefully if that is the case JQ will also extend the travel period covered in their waiving of fare conditions. I'm booked in *class but I think it was a promo fare so not usually refundable I think.

Cheers

Yesterday I was refunded my 25th March flight to KIX which was a *class promo fare (yes usually not refundable) - so if the situation has not changed for the better and they extend their time frame from 11th April I see no problem in a refund.

They do have other options - change destinations or travel outside the one month waiving - the price difference would be a full fare *class less promo amount.

My choice - get money back and rearrange another flight or destination during another promo.

Hope this helps

Helen

 

[Timtammi]

Thanks for the info Helen, I see that all JQ OOL-NRT flights are now going to KIX instead. Not very convenient if you actually need/want to go to Tokyo!

The show that I was going to be attending is still running so I'm going to continue to monitor the situation for a bit longer before I make any decisions.

Cheers

Timmi

 

[Balwyn3103]

"I see that all JQ OOL-NRT flights are now going to KIX instead"

But CNS-NRT is still working on JQ and back again. I'm in southern Japan and flying up to Narita tomorrow. Back to Melbourne Friday. We have 49 employees in Japan and are not thinking of pulling them out at this point. None has requested voluntary evacuation, including the four around Tokyo