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2017
22
November
Calgary to Tokyo, Japan - $652 CAD roundtrip including taxes on ANA
22
November
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has dropped the price of their 1-stop flights from Calgary to Tokyo, Japan down to $652 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
The flights are in and out of Tokyo's Haneda airport (HND) - the one that's close to downtown Tokyo.
ANA was ranked #3 worldwide in this year's airline rankings.
The flights have 1 stop each way, in Vancouver. Most of the flights I've seen have an ideal 2-3 hour layover in Vancouver.
NOTE: The flights between Calgary and Vancouver are operated by Air Canada.
Availability for travel
November, December 2017 (may need to depart in November)
January, February, March, April, May, June 2018
How to find and book this deal
1. Start with Google Flights search like this one:
Google Flights: Calgary to Tokyo, Japan
2. Click on the departure date box to open up the calendar view and look for the date combinations that are $837 roundtrip.
NOTE: In May and June look for the dates that are $1,023 roundtrip.
3. Go to Skyscanner
Search for a flight from Calgary (YYC) to Tokyo, Japan (HND)
Use the same dates you found on Google Flights.
screenshot from Skyscanner
Some info about the booking sites showing these fares
You may have noticed that the only booking sites showing these fares are ones that are generally considered the lower quality booking sites (BookAirfare, Airfare Network). I would consider Budget Air to be more of mid-level quality, and probably the best of the booking sites I've seen with this fare.
If you try Googling for reviews, you'll probably find a lot of bad reviews. Although the same can be said for even the higher quality booking sites of the world (Expedia, Priceline, etc). It's the nature of booking sites to attract bad reviews.
The reason the lower quality booking sites often have the worst reviews, is usually because they tend to use the lowest quality off-shore customer support service.
Here are some things I know to be true:
- It's not super unusual for the low quality booking sites to be the only ones offering a really cheap price on ANA flights. Or for them to offer a price that is significantly cheaper than the ANA website. I've seen this many times over the years.
- With pretty much every ANA deal I can think of, once you book through the low quality booking site, you are issued a ticket number by ANA. You can use this ticket number to check your booking directly on the ANA website and make sure all is well.
In that sense, booking a ticket through a low quality booking site is the same as booking your ticket with ANA. The booking site is just the middle man, getting ANA to issue that ticket on your behalf. It's the same ticket, and you're in the same airline reservation systems worldwide.
Assuming you never need to make any changes to your ticket, you shouldn't have to deal with the booking site from that point on.
However, the key difference between booking through a third party booking site and the airline directly is that if you ever need to deal with customer support (make changes, cancel your ticket, etc) you are forced to deal with the customer service of the third party booking site.
And as mentioned above, generally speaking, the lower the quality of the booking site, the greater the chance that the customer service experience, if ever needed, would be a bad one.
You can find some more info about booking through the third party booking sites in this article:
Third Party Airfare Booking Sites: The Power Rankings - who to trust, who to avoid
Update: It looks like Budget Air is quick at getting these tickets issued from ANA. Airfare Network is not as quick.
Update 11/22 @ 2:00 PM MST - It looks like these are all gone.
Update 11/25 - While the flights from Calgary to Tokyo with ANA are gone, there are now flights with United Airlines for $674 CAD roundtrip including taxes. However, Air Canada is also offering non-stop flights from Calgary to Tokyo for $772 CAD roundtrip on certain dates, so it's worth checking for those first.
How to find the non-stop flights from Calgary to Tokyo (NRT) with Air Canada for $772 CAD roundtrip
1. Start with a Google Flights search like this one:
Google Flights: Calgary to Tokyo, Japan
2. Click on the departure date box to open up the calendar view and look for the date combinations that are $837 roundtrip.
I've seen them in January, February, March, and April 2018.
3. Go to Momondo
Search for a flight from Calgary to Tokyo, Japan (TYO)
Try the same dates you found on Google Flights.
NOTE: After your Momondo search completes, you may need to select 'Non-stop' on the left hand side to see these flights.
screenshot from Momondo
How to find the 1-stop flights from Calgary to Tokyo (TYO) with United Airlines for $674 CAD roundtrip
1. Start with a Google Flights search like this one:
Google Flights: Calgary to Tokyo, Japan
2. Click on the departure date box to open up the calendar view and look for the date combinations that are $888 or $899 roundtrip.
I've seen them in January, February, March, and April 2018.
You can try dates in May, even though they're not cheap on Google Flights. I've seen some for $674, but with 2 stops on the way home.
3. Go to Momondo
Search for a flight from Calgary to Tokyo, Japan (TYO)
Try the same dates you found on Google Flights.
Some flights may be into one of Tokyo's airports, and home from a different Tokyo airport.
NOTE: After your Momondo search completes, you should select '1-stop' on the left hand side. And also slide the 'Max Flight Duration' slider on the left down to about 38.
screenshot from Momondo
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