Originally Posted by
jib71
The issue is that you are essentially on standby for the connecting non-rev flight out of Tokyo?
Would you be allowed to board the first flight if you had a full fare / fully refundable reservation for a flight out of Tokyo - with the intention of cancelling the full fare flight as soon as the non-rev flight is confirmed? I guess that would satisfy the requirement for a confirmed onward booking, but perhaps it would fall short of how the airline expects non-rev passengers to behave.
Most of the time when flying as a non-rev, you get a boarding pass but without a seat assignment for your onward flight but what they want since covid was for every passenger to have a confirmed seat even before you reach Japan because, unless you are a Japanese national or permanent resident, you can't go through Immigration and enter Japan in case you don't get on your connecting flight.