Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Are you passing through NRT during the business week or on a weekend? Weekends might be worse in that any office to contact for clarification would be closed.
AA seems to have a visa rules desk, but AFAIK DL has not such analogue.
It is during the week. Just another worry is the late (10pm) arrival into PEK, knowing how always at SHA and PVG without fail they call the airline to ensure the onward flights. I am pretty sure that Air Koryo has no 24x7 call centre, and neither the DPRK embassy, and they may want to call both there when I arrive. If I was arriving during the day I'd feel much better, but there are no direct SkyTeam flights out of NRT, NGO, KIX or FUK (all direct DL destinations) to PEK other than DL's sole daily NRT-PEK, and I am flying during CI and KE blackout dates, so HNL-ICN or HNL-TPE and then to PEK the next day daytime isn't an option, and neither is HNL-PVG(MU)-PEK, as can't arrive one region and depart another under 72h TWOV. So, I am stuck flying DL via NRT, and arriving at PEK worryingly late at 10pm... I sure hope I am not stuck there the whole night until they can call JS and DPRK Embassy the next morning! (As it almost happened once when I missed an MU connection at PVG and they wouldn't let me through until I was rebooked and had my new flights and hotel reservation printed out - yet I was not given access to a computer or printer and just kept standing in front of immigration. Thankfully after shift change I did get through, but had to spend a good hour there even when I had flights rebooked and hotel booked, as they wouldn't look at the e-mail of it on my phone and insisted on a printout, yet giving no access to a printer - I have no idea how they expected me to magically print it. I guess that good sense and logic is viewed as the enemy by PRC immigration..)