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Old Dec 4, 2019 | 8:43 am
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ksandness
 
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Originally Posted by Jaimito Cartero

Just this week I’ve seen some reasonable Japan tickets from the west coast. $550-800 RT, from cities as diverse as PHX, LAX and SEA.
Winter flights are always cheaper. Back when I was still teaching on the university level, I used to see roundtrips as low as $600 from PDX/SEA in January (this was over 20 years ago, but it was dirt cheap, even then), but my teaching duties prevented me from taking advantage of these bargains.
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