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sakhan2
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Ottawa, Ontario CANADA
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:11 pm Post subject: JET Flight |
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THis may seem like a strange question, but I have heard alternating stories about the flight from home country to Japan. Are JETs flown business class or economy? Also, what airline is used? ( I would be leaving from Ottawa, Canada) |
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Glenski

Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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This may seem like a simple reply, but why don't you ask JET? If you are getting varied answers from other online sources, it just seems logical to go to the source.
Is there a special concern about flying economy or business? JET pays for everything, you know. |
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Celeste
Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 814 Location: Fukuoka City, Japan
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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About 4 or 5 years ago, JET used to fly all of its employees business class. Now they fly economy-alas. They generally use Japan Airlines (JAL) and the tickets are usually arranged by a travel agency in New York City. They will send your itinerary with a contact number for the travel agency sometime in June, I believe. (Or at least that's how it all worked last year.) |
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sakhan2
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Ottawa, Ontario CANADA
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies,
no I don't have any special concerns, I was just hoping to be flown Business class
Thanks again. |
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Mariana
Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Bavaria
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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I have a friend who's participating in the JET programme at the moment. He says he was flown out business class. He's in his third and final year of the programme though, and hasn't been back to the UK since, so I hope they haven't decided to cut spending since then!
Yrs,
Mariana. |
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G Cthulhu
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 1373 Location: Way, way off course.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:46 am Post subject: |
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Celeste wrote: |
About 4 or 5 years ago, JET used to fly all of its employees business class. Now they fly economy-alas. They generally use Japan Airlines (JAL)
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Last business class flights were in 2000. And they do indeed try and use Japanese airlines wherever possible. This sometimes leads to some peculiar routings: people from Christchurch in NZ were flown to Australia in 2000 in order to pick up a connecting flight to Japan on JAL, depsite this costing several hundred extra dollars over a direct flight!
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and the tickets are usually arranged by a travel agency in New York City. They will send your itinerary with a contact number for the travel agency sometime in June, I believe. (Or at least that's how it all worked last year.)
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This is a great big pet peeve of mine. Really big. Large. What is it? Well, look at the sentence above. 'Tickets are arranged by a travel agent in NY' Are they just? Maybe for the *US* participants. But not for the other 55% of the programme *that doesn't come from the US*!!
<sigh> |
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Celeste
Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 814 Location: Fukuoka City, Japan
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:37 am Post subject: |
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I was in Vancouver, Canada- thousands of kilometres and one international border away from New York, and yet this is where my JET airline ticket was arranged from. (I needed the itinerary information, and had to make several calls to New York City to get it.)
Sorry that you are ticked off sweetheart, but I am no more American than you are. (And don't give me any of that lame arguement about North American being the same as American, because THAT ticks me off.) |
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G Cthulhu
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 1373 Location: Way, way off course.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:05 am Post subject: |
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Celeste wrote: |
I was in Vancouver, Canada- thousands of kilometres and one international border away from New York, and yet this is where my JET airline ticket was arranged from. (I needed the itinerary information, and had to make several calls to New York City to get it.)
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I've always wondered if the Japanese treated Canada as a mere branch of the US. Guess I've got part of the answer, eh? ;)
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Sorry that you are ticked off sweetheart, but I am no more American than you are. (And don't give me any of that lame arguement about North American being the same as American, because THAT ticks me off.)
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I wouldn't bother. *I* wasn't the one implying that *all* JET airfares are arranged from NY, was I now? |
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Celeste
Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 814 Location: Fukuoka City, Japan
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 7:45 am Post subject: |
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I didn't imply- I assumed. A completely different bad habit.  |
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