I wouldn't do it. Too many unknown variables, such as your landing time and how many are in line in front of you at immigration. When does check-in for Miat shut down?

The walk from the arrival gate to transfer security by itself is quite a hike (I should time it some day), and if your flight is late and/or the transfer security line is long, you may miss Miat's deadline.

As long as you're transferring international to international and not going landside, Immigration is irrelevant, but still, counting on a 70-minute connection time is living dangerously.

Help - INT/INT transfer at NRT
 

Hi FT community- we are flying out tomorrow so thought would ask some quick advice.

Flying SAN-NRT on JL65 in J arriving 4:45pm

3:40 connection; then

Flying NRT-ICN on OZ9604 in Y departing at 8:25pm.

Completely separate tickets (JL on an AA award, OZ via cash purchase) and separate PNRs. Will have checked luggage - no option not to check bags.

Can I get JL to tag all the way through to ICN? That would be ideal.

If not, then what is the immigration, bag collection, customs, terminal transfer, and re-check in process like? Is there a quick “transfer” option to be able to do this airside? If not, we are assuming at 3:40 connect time, we should be just fine.

Any advice? I tried getting the JL call center to add the OZ seg in their PNR as a passive segment (I used to be able to do that as an agent) so JL check in counter in SAN could see it and tag thru to ICN easier, but their call center didn’t know how to do it.

Thanks!!

JAL can check through to OZ. As it is a non alliance partner, there is no policy saying they will do it. And I have never seen any reports on this combo. Bring a print of your e ticket on OZ, and don't do online check in before JAL tries to check the luggage through.

Iff this fails, you will need to clear immigration ø, reclaim your luggage, transfer to terminal 1 and recheck your bags. OZ and JL are in different terminals, the terminals are not connected so I don't see an alterative to this.

OZ bag drop/check in will close an hour before departure, you need about 20 minutes to move between terminals including an average wait for a bus, and at least 30 minutes from landing until you are past customs. If immigration lines are long, more than that. It does not leave a lot of wriggle room.

We arrive into HND at 6:50am, and our flight from NRT leaves at 10:50am - it looks like it takes about 1.5 hrs to transfer....do you all think we are cutting it too fine - knowing we will have to collect luggage/immigration - then take transportation ( probably limousine bus)? This is an award ticket which is on hold, so I still have the option to check if anything else is available.

Thanks,

D

I went from DCA to YYZ to HND, Air Canada with no problems.

Coming home was KIX (ANA) to HND to YYZ to DCA, Air Canada.

Originally we had a 1hr 15min layover in HND but the ANA rep changed us to an earlier flight due to the connection time which gave us a little over 2hrs.

Well, we made our flight to YYZ easily. However, between there and DCA, our bags didn't make it. Got them the next day deliver to our house.

Minimum connection time between HND and NRT is 3.5 hours. Frankly, that's cutting it close, but the airlines have enough confidence to schedule it. If all on same ticket, if you miss second flight, they will take care of you. Whether that's good enough is up to you. Yes, limo bus is the way to do it.

Where do you arrive from? Bangkok and Singapore flights have a tendency to come in early, which could help you a bit.

Traffic in the morning is mainly heading in to Tokyo, where as the way you are going is heading out of Tokyo, so I would not expect much in terms of traffic delays, so should be fine. Just not much time to stop and smell the roses.

We are coming in from BKK - but will probably NOT take this flight since I dont want to take any chances missing our flights.

Hi

I'm traveling to Japan around new years, and wanted to check if the below connection at HND is doable on 26th Dec. Given the time of year understand the airport will be fairly busy.

Transiting at HND
Arriving on BA at 07:35
Departing on JL domestic at 10:30
Connection time - 2:55
Connecting Int to Dom
Will be traveling on separate tickets

Thanks - Barney

Should be no problem. December 26 will most likely be a normal day. Holiday rush won't start until 27th or even later. Even then, Haneda is an efficient airport.

That is really tight.
First of all, I'm not sure that there is an airside shuttle from T1 to T2. I have seen folks claim there is one. But I'm not sure that they're still running that.
Assuming you have to enter Jpn and transfer landside, assuming on-time arrival, and assuming you only do carry-on and assuming it takes 30min from being parked at the gate until you've cleared passport control (30min to deplane, walk to immigration, queue, passport check), I think you'll probably end up getting to JAL gate ~25min before departure time. That means that, assuming they close the gate 10min before departure time, you might be in trouble if your flight is running >15min late.

Things would be completely different, though, if there was such thing as an airside shuttle. It would also help if you're flying in premium cabin on NH, thus reducing the deplaning time.