Originally Posted by
mjoeroy
My husband & I have already started a DONE4. We bought our tickets through JAL & started our trip from Tokyo. One of our flight coming up is with Cathay SEA-HKG-BKK. In anticipation of those flights potentially being cancelled or Thailand issuing restrictions for passengers transiting through Hong Kong, I want to change our flight to JAL SEA-NRT-BKK. Cathay has already cancelled our original flight but rebooked us a day earlier on another flight. There is not telling if this new flight will also eventually be cancelled as the situation does not look good for Cathay at this time.
Providing seats are available & open for RTW passengers, would I be able to transit through my departure city (NRT)? I know I would not be able to do a stopover but this would only be a 2hrs layover. Our options are very limited as we have to cross the Pacific because we crossed the Atlantic at the beginning of our trip. The only possible routes from SEA considering this, are through HKG or NRT. Going through London with BA is not an option as it would add a continent to our trip unless a layover in a separate continent would be authorized without counting it as a continent. ...
UPDATE: Well everything is working out good so far. I just spoke with an English speaking agent from JAL. I told him that Cathay had cancelled our flight & rebooked us a day earlier. I explain we did not want to loose a day & that we would prefer not transiting through Hong Kong considering the situation. I told him we would prefer flying with JAL & transiting through Tokyo. I was prepare to plead but he just said "no problem" & offered me 2 dates to choose from. I told him the date we would prefer & he gave me all the information for the flights SEA-NRT-BKK & gave me our seats assignments. I told him I wanted to make sure we would not lose our flight later in the year back to Tokyo to complete our RTW since we had started in Tokyo & we were now transiting through Tokyo. He said not to worry, since it was only a transit it would not invalidate the rest of our ticket. I asked him if this would automatically cancelled our re-booked flight with Cathay or if I needed to do something else. He said, he would take care of it. He said I can log online & see all the changes. I waited a few minutes & logged on line & saw all the new changes.
The only thing is now it says "Status on hold" "Holding period Fri 28 Feb". But I think that is just a formality when there a change. At least I hope.
It was so easy this time, I actually had to pinch myself. Thank you for all the help & support! I'll let you know if anything changes.