Originally Posted by
JALPak
Thought you are flying TYO-OKA-TYO/OSA/FUK-SPK-TYO. Are you only getting TYO-OKA-TYO round trip?
No strict plan so far. The fact we cannot add domestic legs to our existing award tickets + availability of flights for sale and prices (when they are finally released) could affect our routing. We are thinking about
:
HND-OKA-SPK-HND
or
HND-OKA-FUK-ITM
or
ITM-OKA-FUK-HND
or just
ITM-OKA-HND
So generally we're talking about 2-3 domestic legs, no more. I mentioned $300 just as a "somewhat around" sum based on the price check for Sept-Oct I did. I could see class J widely available on longer domestic legs for $150-200 per segment (starting from $100, but those are very very very limited dates/flights). If we end up paying $400-500 per person it's still fine.
Yokoso/Visit Japan Fare besides being available only in economy has also blackout period from December 23, 2017 to January 03, 2018 (which is more than half of our time in Japan, we're arriving 21/12 and leaving 09/01).
https://www.jal.co.jp/yokosojapan/
Originally Posted by
JALPak
Anyway, even with just HND-OKA, you will be paying for quite a bit. Below is PDF for last year's fares. It's closer to $500-600 if you are flying between 12/26 and 12/31. Don't even think about flying back to TYO on 1/1-3 without paying for the premium LOL. DEEP DISCOUNTED Y went up to as high as JPY45,800++ for OKA-HND sector on those days.
Thank you very much! It's very helpful. So the worst in terms of fares time for flying from Tokyo or Kansai region to OKA is
26/12 to 03/01? Then we can put Okinawa in the end or our trip, good I didn't make prepaid hotel reservations.
Anyways we have to wait until they finally release those poor flights for sale to be able to build up the entire plan.