Big lack of updates, I have been busy lately with my last days at work, getting a visa for going to Japan and settling things here prior to departure.
My excuse is that the point of this blog anyway has always been to write about my life in Japan, and I'm not even there yet.
But tomorrow the time has come to take off for Japan and Sapporo!
Well hopefully at least.
Since I've been working at Sas ground services (part of Scandinavian Airlines), I can get to Japan quite cheaply. However, staff tickets have standby status, meaning that I can get on if there are free seats available at the time of departure.
Just too bad that we're (me and my girlfriend who is Japanese and coming with me) going to Japan in the middle of tourist season. Just like me, Japanese people are starting school by the beginning of April, meaning many of them have vacation at this time, so most flights are fully booked.
Tomorrow looks a bit less terrible than most other days though, so I keep my fingers crossed.
Worst case scenario is we'll have to sleep for a few nights at Copenhagen or Frankfurt airport,
I can live with that if I can just get to Sapporo before school starts on the 5th of April.
Hopefully though I'll be sitting in one of the business class lie-flat seats of Sas' Airbus A340-300 series aircraft bound for Narita, Tokyo international airport tomorrow afternoon.
From Narita, I can hopefully take a flight directly to New Chitose Sapporo airport. I might have to change airport in Tokyo though and go to Haneda, which is the domestic airport of Tokyo and has alot more flights for Sapporo.
Haneda (Tokyo) - Chitose (Sapporo) actually happens to be the most busy air route in the world with some 45 wide-body aircraft arrivals and departures per day. For you non-airline workers or aircraft geeks, widebody means a big aircraft, usually carrying 200-550 passengers.
That's it for now. Need to start packing some clothes!
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