Originally Posted by
AlwaysAisle
If your return MNL-TYO (HND?NRT) -MEX reservation is on separate ticket, then return flights will not be cancelled if you skip NRT-BKK segment. If your entire round trip is on one ticket, then yes your return portion will be cancelled if you skip NRT-BKK segment.
You are not the only person who got a flight cancelled out of NRT due to Typhoon no. 19. There are thousands of people who got their flight cancelled, there will be back log of those people trying to fly out NRT or HND as soon as flights resume. If you reached NRT and grabbed your bags, what make you think you will able to grab a seat on any flight to BKK in next a day or two? If you try stand by, then do you think you will be put on top of the stand by list, where likely there will be literally hundred of people on standby list from cancelled flight of previous days due to Typhoon no. 19.? People who paid expensive full fare, people with elite level of frequent flyer status will likely be ahead of you on stand by list.
Another option for me is now that those 15k ana points transferred if I get get through to ANA I can cancel the full roundtrip and then book a star alliance award from anywhere in the US for 115k points and then pay to get to
If you try to get on non-ANA flight out of NRT to BKK then likely you have to pay expensive last minute fare, if there is any seats available...
Yes the ticket is roundtrip on same reservation, however how am I supposed to catch a connecting flight that was cancelled and doesn't even exist anymore?
Think you're exaggerating regarding limited space to BKK. There are 9 airlines flying dozens of flights a day between the 2 city pairs, I looked on google flights, there is tons of space on Oct 15th and even some flights still left on Oct 14th with space with some budget carriers to BKK. However, I will talk to ANA first, I been on hold for about 2 hours now, I think i'll eventually get through. Whether there is space on ANA's flight is another story, yeah if I wait for space with ANA as a traditional carrier with only 2-3 flights a day yeah I might wait for many days but on any carrier in any class i don't think it will take so long, but the question is if I do that if it cancels my other tickets, esp if that connecting flight was cancelled.