The way things are looking at the moment operations at NRT should be fairly normal until maybe 9pm. After that the higher winds should start and are expected to last well into tomorrow morning with gusts up to 70-85 kts. This could be a problem for the early morning arrivals from Europe. At the moment we are just experiencing heavy rain with fairly moderate winds at 8kts.

KIX should be well clear of the typhoon and in fact they are now reporting 20kt winds, which is probably about as bad as it will get. Nagoya is reporting similar winds, that is expected to deterioriate fairly quickly.

I guess for flights from the US to KIX, the question is going to be how to route around the weather system in such a away as to avoid the bad turbulence. I left NRT a day after a typhoon last year on a LH 747 to FRA. About one hour after departure we crossed the tail-end of the typhoon and it really was no fun, not even for this seasoned flyer.....