Sorted! Online at midnight last night I secured our flights back the day after the quarter finals. Was lucky enough to get the 2 J seats on the HND service too.

Funnily enough, I had determined a strategy which didn’t work - I knew the HND flight would be displayed first as it is earlier than the NRT flight. I also figured that HND is a more attractive option than NRT too. So, knowing what a bunfight getting these seats is, I had decided in advance to plump for the NRT flight... needless to say I got all the way through the process, card details etc. before it failed. But I still had another browser open, HND was still available... and it worked!

Only downside is a bit of an early start the day after potentially seeing Scotland beat the All Blacks, but we’ll be home as soon as possible on 21/10 which, considering we’re flying out to ICN on 18/9, is probably sensible!