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Old Mar 10, 2024 | 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by The _Banking_Scot
Hi,

How long would your connection be if you picked a HND flight?

TBS
The Haneda transit layover would be 6 hours.

Originally Posted by AlwaysAisle
Buying tickets this far in advance, there is also a chance of schedule change. Ticket you purchase for Jan. 31, 2025 is based on the current schedule. There is possibility of schedule change twice from now and Jan. 31, 2025. When airlines load Summer 2024 schedule, and when airlines load Winter 24/25 schedule. With separate tickets, airlines will not give consideration to your connecting flights when re-accommodating you due to schedule changes.
This is a great point, thank you. Might be best for me to hold off a few months to book my connection to BKK.

You are all so helpful here. I am going to wait a bit to see if my JAL flight to NRT happens to change before I book my self transiting ticket onward. Here are what I was considering as those options, if anyone would like to weigh in. Would a 5/6 hour layover be enough to transit to HND even or find later flights?

Arrive in NRT on 2/1/25 at 16:35
  • Stay in NRT and depart on Singapore Air to BKK (via SIN) at 18:40 on 2/1
  • Transfer to HND and depart on JAL to BKK at 00:10 on 2/2
  • Transfer to HND and depart on Thai to BKK at 00:20 on 2/2

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