Originally Posted by
southbeach82
I’m based out of YYZ and since JAL doesn’t fly from here, does anyone have experience transiting from the cities that JAL flies from? Which one would be a better option? YVR, ORD or JFK. I was thinking YVR since that would eliminate US customs but ORD or JFK is closer.
I was YYZ based and went through ORD. I did some pretty dangerous separate ticket "connections" in the winter too. Thankfully nothing ever went wrong.
Nobody flies direct to JFK from YYZ now that DL keeps cancelling that route, and they never flew it at particularly helpful times anyway in addition to it being expensive, so any JFK routing requires you to Uber LGA-JFK.
The JFK awards on ANA and JAL are considerably more competitive than ORD too.