Originally Posted by randomasian

I want to see Flight of Dreams which is basically attached to the airport so this is one situation where transportation is actually better if I fly. But for normal situations, I agree with you. The other time I visited Nagoya, I took the train from Shin-Osaka.

As an aside, are you crediting those flights to JL? I feel like there's a sweet spot where if someone from Japan can fly to Europe once a year and is willing to do a layover in London, they can just do around 2-3 additional domestic JAL class J flights a month to get OneWorld Emerald through British Airways. A similar flying pattern may not even make OW Sapphire with JL.