My Scott's Cheap Flights membership is officially worth it.

Hi everybody! Back in late Spring, I got an email from Scott's Cheap Flights (#notsponsored) about an amazing flight deal. To celebrate the new route from Seattle to Tokyo NONSTOP, Japan Airlines was having a sale. A big sale. A super duper giant sale. Brace yourself.

$466. Round. Trip.

So for Marshall's birthday, we decided to go to Japan! Along with us was Michael, Marshall's brother.

August 22. SeaTac airport. Out flight was at 2pm, so we arrived around 11:30, which turned out to be too early. With Japan Airlines, they don't even open their counter for check-in until two hours before departure. They do offer online check in with your phone, but we were checking bags. So we waited in line. Check-in was super fast and simple.

My bag was the lightest at only 10.0kg. Heck yes!

After checking in, our agent informed us that the departure time, 2:05 pm, was still set and there was no delay, and that boarding would begin at 1:50. At first I thought she said 1:15. But no, 1:50.

We waited at the gate area until boarding began, at 1:50pm. The passengers on our flight were the absolute best. This is because they don't crowd the gate before it's their turn to board! This is a huge pet peeve of mine when traveling. But here, everyone calmly waited at their seat, or up against the wall far away from the would-be crowd. It was so smooth and easy and as a result our flight left on time. I repeat: our flight left ON TIME after the boarding process began 15 minutes prior to departure.

Us, having boarded the plane in 10 minutes.

Once on the plane, I noticed the windows 1) were bigger and 2) didn't have a shade. Beneath each window was a button and you could choose how dark to make your window. This was really nice. The crew controls the windows mid-flight to simulate night time, which was excellent on the return flight when sleep is necessary, but a little challenging on the Westbound flight since we needed to remain awake to avoid jetlag.


The lavatory had a bidet. I was not brave enough to try an airplane bidet.

We landed in Tokyo at 4:15 pm on Friday afternoon.