In July 2023, Japan Airlines (JAL) announced plans to launch a new route to Doha. At the time, the airline hadn’t revealed the exact launch date or schedule, though that has finally changed, and the flight is now on sale.
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When Finnair and American launched flights, Qatar pulled some of their routes (PHL-DOH, HEL-DOH, etc.). I wonder if this means that QR will free up their own planes for new routes/densify existing routes?
Arriving Haneda at 11:55PM is brutal - virtually no ground transports to Tokyo are available other than expensive taxi. JAL should run bus like Emirates to major Tokyo terminal.
Agreed, I mean they probably should pull back 1 frequency. Some members just like flying on Metal that they know and expect. I have flown AA, BA, & IB to Europe and I prefer AA. Even with the Flight Attendants (or lack there of) and issues with seats etc. IB was horrible and BA transfer issues and both BA/IB Intra-Europe seats made the trek uncomfortable.
I wonder which HUB has the most OW partners? Maybe London, Hong Kong, or Tokyo? I know DFW has many of them as well.
JFK T8 has quite a lot now - it is cool to see: AA, BA, JL, CX, RJ, QR, QF, AY, IB. AT flies from JFK T1. Not sure if the most, tough.
LHR is the top with all airlines except AS flying to it. DOH is #2 missing AS and CX.
DOH is tied for #2 with JFK. QF, AS, and CX don't serve DOH and UL, WY, and MH don't serve JFK.
Down town Tokyo is a wide space, and depending on whether you get a car with or without night time charge. There are fixed fares for most areas, and in most cases you will be below 10,000 yen.
Of course. These are, for all practical purposes, wetleases, because QR suffers from a lack of planes. Once they expand their fleet, all (or most) these flights will revert back to QR.
Qatar is pulling out of Haneda. If you make a booking you will see that JL only has 8 seats available in business class on each departure. The rest are already taken by Qatar Airways. So the setup will be the same as when Finnair took over some of the rotations on the Nordic capital cities.
Unfortunetly slot was always major issue when airline operated service to HND. International flight only granted unrestricted slot near midnight, for daylight it was pretty limited to find slot since either being taken by NH or JL for their domestic (mostly) and international flight or already taken foreign airlines. Even JL had limited slot in daylight compared to NH due their bankrupt history
No wonder the other day when I was at the Al Safwa lounge, there was a QR rep bringing around a group of JAL team explaining the lounge facilities, etc. I did think of them launching, but did not already know that works were already rolling..good to know.
For late arrivals to Haneda, I like to stay at the Royal Park Hotel Haneda. It's connected to T3 and is fairly comfortable. Only thing is that most of the places to eat in the terminal are closed by about 21:00. Maybe the Yoshinoya gyudon place might be open...