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Hate airline food? ANA now lets you cancel in-flight meal prior to boarding, switch to a sandwich
- Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2023 - Tweet
No discount for opting out of the regular meal, though.
- Japan
- (Air travel • airline food • airplanes • All Nippon Airways • ANA • eco-friendly • food • travel)
What better way to fly to Japan than on the brand-new Pikachu Jet?
- Casey Baseel
Mar 28, 2023
ANA’s Pokémon plane will be ready for international flights in time for the summer travel season.
- Japan
- (Air travel • airplanes • All Nippon Airways • ANA • anime • awesome • cute • Pikachu • Pikachu Jet • Pokemon • travel • video games)
Exeggutor airplanes taking off from Solaseed Air in Miyazaki Prefecture, other Pokémon tag along
- Master Blaster
Jan 23, 2023
I only fly Exeggutor class.
- Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • anime • Exeggutor • Miyazaki • Nasshi Jet • Pokemon • Solaseed • travel • video games)
Drive your car on an airport runway at this secret spot in Japan
- Oona McGee
Dec 20, 2021
The sign above reads: “No entry during takeoff and landing.“
- Japan
- (aeroplanes • airplanes • airports • cars • COK • cool • driving • flying cars • history • motorbikes • off the beaten path • Okayama • planes • SNJO • tourism • travel • weird)
Demon Slayer anime airplane set to take flight in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Nov 16, 2021
ANA will also offer Demon Slayer in-flight entertainment and toys.
- Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • ANA • anime • awesome • cool • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • travel)
Taking a trip using Japan’s random gacha capsule airplane ticket discount【Photos】
- SoraNews24
Oct 21, 2021
A small discount sends us on a big adventure to the other side of Japan.
- Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • Beppu • COK • cool • crazy • food • gacha • hot springs • Kyushu • Mr. Sato • Oita • onsen • Peach • SNJO • travel • weird)
We buy random-destination airplane ticket discounts from a Japanese gacha capsule vending machine
- SoraNews24
Oct 16, 2021
A new way to fly.
- Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • awesome • capsule toys • cool • crazy • deals • gacha • Peach • SNJO • travel)
Japanese airline introduces one-month all-you-can-fly pass for under US$200
- Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2021
The word houdai always gets people excited, but this time it’s on a whole other level.
Japanese gacha capsule vending machines now sell random-destination airplane ticket discounts
- Casey Baseel
Oct 12, 2021
A gacha capsule for anyone who truly thinks it’s not the destination that’s important, but the journey.
- Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • awesome • capsule toys • cool • crazy • deals • gacha • Peach • travel)
Japan Airlines re-re-releasing happi famously once worn by the Beatles
- Katie Pask
Oct 6, 2021
And the best part? You don’t even need a Ticket to Ride to get it!
- Japan
- (airplane • airplanes • Beatles • cool • fashion • happi • happi coat • JAL • Japan Airlines • travel)
Blue Impulse’s cockpit version video gives us an intimate look inside an aerobatic plane 【Video】
- Krista Rogers
Aug 10, 2021
See the Tokyo metropolis like you’ve never seen it before in this 360-degree rotatable video from the opening day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
- Japan
- (2020 Olympics • 2021 Olympics • 360 degree video • aerobatics • air show • airplanes • Blue Impulse • cockpit • cool • Japan Self-Defense Forces • JASDF • Tokyo Olympic • video)
Pikachu learns how to fly as Japan’s new Pokémon airliner takes fight
- Casey Baseel
Jun 24, 2021
Pikachu Jet takes off, and will be flying fans around Japan for years to come.
- Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • anime • cool • cute • Pikachu • Pokemon • Skymark • travel • video games)
Man who refused to wear mask on airplane in Japan gets arrested four months later
- Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2021
Airline apparently did not forgive or forget.
- Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • coronavirus • crime • mask • masks • Peach Aviation • planes • travel)
Travelers can now fly in a Pokémon airplane in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Dec 22, 2020
Tokyo-Miyazaki route gets special plane saluting regional Pokémon mascot.
- Japan
- (Air travel • airplanes • anime • COK • cool • Exeggutor • Miyazaki • Pokemon • Solaseed Air • travel • video games)
Japanese domestic flights for just 500 yen (US$4.70) is one of the greatest travel bargains ever
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2020
Fly from Tokyo to Okinawa for less than the price of a fancy Starbucks coffee…but you’ll need to hurry.
Japanese airline leaves passenger behind at rural island airport after he refuses to wear mask
- Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2020
He might have still had a shot at flying to his destination, but he blew that too.
Flight that crashed in 1985 spotted landing in Narita Airport 35 years later
- Master Blaster
Aug 8, 2020
Fittingly right before Obon too.
- Japan
- (airplanes • Flight Radar 24 • JAL • JAL Flight 123 • Narita Airport • Obon • plane crash)
With no passengers, Japanese airline fills every seat on plane with masks and medical supplies
- Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2020
Coronavirus is keeping people at home, but supplies still need to move.
- China, Japan
- (airlines • airplanes • All Nippon Airways • ANA • clever • coronavirus • masks • travel • weird)
New ANA air pass with unlimited Japanese house rentals, multiple flights now taking applications
- Casey Baseel
Jan 17, 2020
An amazingly affordable way to see Japan and live like a local.
Japanese airline still using some startling old, almost 20-year-old computer tech, traveler learns
- Casey Baseel
Jan 17, 2020
Air carrier has stuck with its airport OS for longer than just about any private PC user.
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