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Old Feb 9, 2022, 9:30 pm
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Alternative routing if Japan is still closed in September
Everyone's hoping that Japan reopens this year...I am on that same boat. I have a trip in September on JL from LAX-NRT(Stopover)-SIN; then from SIN to MLE on SQ (separate ticket).
I need to prepare for alternatives in case I cannot stopover in Japan.

Does anyone have any suggestions that still gets me to SIN? Or maybe not SIN but just love to break the trip up and just have the stopover somewhere in Asia before going to MLE.
I used 130k AS for 2 J tickets.

Thanks in advance.
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Old Feb 9, 2022, 9:51 pm
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Can you connect instead of stopping over?
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Old Feb 9, 2022, 10:07 pm
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Originally Posted by VegasGambler
Can you connect instead of stopping over?
I'm certain I can just transit even if Japan is closed. My question was more asking for other routing suggestions to still have a stopover in Asia somewhere to use my AS points. I need to visit for a week somewhere before heading to MLE.
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Old Feb 9, 2022, 10:29 pm
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I'm certain I can just transit even if Japan is closed. My question was more asking for other routing suggestions to still have a stopover in Asia somewhere to use my AS points. I need to visit for a week somewhere before heading to MLE.
Take the stopover in SIN. It may end up changing, but currently any transit needs to be on one ticket. It cannot be on separate tickets, and it has been this way since Singapore started reopening.
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Old Feb 9, 2022, 10:56 pm
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Originally Posted by DiamondMile
Take the stopover in SIN. It may end up changing, but currently any transit needs to be on one ticket. It cannot be on separate tickets, and it has been this way since Singapore started reopening.
Yeah, and asking for where we will be and who will be allowing people in in 6-7 months is like asking for winning lottery numbers in 6 months, so I don’t see how you can plan this far in advance. Thailand hasn’t been particularly consistent for tourism, China doesn’t look like it’s opening soon, and so on. Probably better to stop over in SIN for now and re-evaluate much closer to travel dates, I think.
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Old Feb 9, 2022, 11:09 pm
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Originally Posted by buildingcredit
Everyone's hoping that Japan reopens this year...I am on that same boat. I have a trip in September on JL from LAX-NRT(Stopover)-SIN; then from SIN to MLE on SQ (separate ticket).
I need to prepare for alternatives in case I cannot stopover in Japan.

Does anyone have any suggestions that still gets me to SIN? Or maybe not SIN but just love to break the trip up and just have the stopover somewhere in Asia before going to MLE.
I used 130k AS for 2 J tickets.

Thanks in advance.
You could stop over in Thailand (eg lax-nrt-bkk) then you'd have to change your sin-mle or just buy a bkk-sin ticket IF you want to follow the "whack a mole" rules to see what Thailand is doing in terms of allowing tourists. Also SIN has changed their entry without quarantine rules a few times. But of course no one knows what is likely to be the case in two weeks never mind months from now.
The Philippines just announced with little notice that they are opening to foreigners without quaratine, Bali opened with quarantine but almost no flights are going there, etc.
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Old Feb 9, 2022, 11:19 pm
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I’d go with BKK as Thailand has been open more than Singapore or Japan. Get one ticket all the way thru to BKK.
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Old Feb 10, 2022, 8:34 am
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I’d go with BKK as Thailand has been open more than Singapore or Japan. Get one ticket all the way thru to BKK.
This is what I just did for late May. Threw in the towel on Japan and just moved on down the line.
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Old Feb 10, 2022, 9:25 am
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Seoul/South Korea on KE?
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Old Feb 10, 2022, 10:12 am
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Seoul/South Korea on KE?
OP needs to configure KE award as a round trip or else they pay 2x for a one way. Sounds like OP has 2 one ways to SIN + two one ways to MLE. That won’t cut it…
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Old Feb 10, 2022, 10:45 am
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Thailand just restarted their Test-Go scheme and Msia also announced their reopening come March-1.
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Old Feb 10, 2022, 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by buildingcredit
I'm certain I can just transit even if Japan is closed. My question was more asking for other routing suggestions to still have a stopover in Asia somewhere to use my AS points. I need to visit for a week somewhere before heading to MLE.
If you're traveling to Singapore under the VTL program, this won't work. Per the Singapore VTL site:

>Travellers may only have travelled to or transited via "Active VTL (Air) Countries/Regions" within the past 14 days

Japan is not on the list of VTL regions. So if you transit Japan en route to Singapore, you won't be let in. Thailand and Korea are good alternates that are on the VTL list.
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Old Feb 10, 2022, 1:15 pm
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Originally Posted by buildingcredit
Everyone's hoping that Japan reopens this year...I am on that same boat. I have a trip in September on JL from LAX-NRT(Stopover)-SIN; then from SIN to MLE on SQ (separate ticket).
I need to prepare for alternatives in case I cannot stopover in Japan.
CX
Does anyone have any suggestions that still gets me to SIN? Or maybe not SIN but just love to break the trip up and just have the stopover somewhere in Asia before going to MLE.
I used 130k AS for 2 J tickets.
Getting 2 x J award tickets on OW/AS partners will be hard. At short notice (hrs/days) is may be easier.
Are few OW/AS partner airlines going USA to Asia. CX JL KE SQ
When you originally booked what other options were available?
Would expect travelling in September 2022 will be different to now.
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...dID:MPPartners
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Old Feb 13, 2022, 7:24 pm
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Consider flights on MH via KUL or UL via CMB?
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Old Feb 13, 2022, 8:14 pm
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Consider flights on MH via KUL or UL via CMB?
Gonna be hard to do those with AS miles if AS doesn’t have redemption options for MH/UL (they don’t yet). If OP has access to any kind of credit card points that can transfer to BA though…
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