Originally Posted by Snoopy
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.....
We did have a little turbulence as we neared Japan on the PDX-NRT route yesterday. Nothing really bad though.
My feeling is that airlines will usually try to fly, if at all possible, in these situations. A few years ago on a west coast-NRT flight as a typhoon was hitting Japan, they didn't cancel the flight, but they did lighten the load by bumping (involuntarily) a sizeable number of passengers.