Originally Posted by
percysmith
So OP has a right to insist BAEC reroute you and your wife to HIJ - possibly thru HND with JL or even with a non-OW airline if it comes to it. CX/BAEC's trying to bully you into accepting alternate destination.
TMK, only JL flies HIJ-HND (NH flies to NRT with CRJs only).
But, HIJ-TYO-HKG is a very undesirable routing IMO v. the train (and 10 minute taxi ride) to FUK followed by a nonstop flight. Basically, it takes close to an hour to get from Hiroshima to HIJ, compared with ~2 hours to Fukuoka by train (let's call it 2.5 hours, including the airport transfer), and the backtrack to TYO (from HIJ) adds a solid 4 hours to total travel time.