Review: JAL Business Class Sky Suite 787-8 NRT-DFW

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Last week, before my flight from Tokyo to Dallas, I checked if seats were open on JAL. I originally booked my way home with 50,000 Alaska miles for an American Airlines Business Class ticket. But I was totally willing to pay 10,000 more miles to fly back on JAL. Especially when the cash rate was $7,300+!

JAL Business Class cabin

Seats were available! I called Alaska Airlines to make the switch. A few minutes and 10,000 miles later, I was booked into a JAL Sky Suite seat back home to Dallas.

I’d always wanted to fly a Japanese airline. Both times I’ve flown were with American. So I did a happy dance I was able to score this seat.

Even better, the new flight time was within 5 minutes of my old one. So I didn’t have to change any plans, other than fly home in a better seat on a new (to me) airline!

JAL Business Class Sky Suite review

Link: JAL Sky Suite seats

The trek back to Narita sucked hard, dude. I missed the Narita Express train before I realized they only leave once per hour at certain times of day. Missing the 7am train meant waiting until 8am. And for a 10:45am flight, I didn’t want to cut it that close. So we took a JR East train to Nippori and transferred to the Skyliner. It was roughly the same cost, but with more stops and a connection.

Even still, we got to NRT around 8:45am. So had plenty of time to check a bag and have a drink in the Sakura lounge.

Bag drop was a bag drag

We’d already checked in online. But my friend shopped a lot in Tokyo and needed to check a bag. The bag drop line moved slower than expected. Like, isn’t it a bag drop – as in drop and go?