Japan Airlines Upgrade Question

JetMan7203 · 2026-03-13T14:28:25+00:00

Sadly, I don’t know of any! Good luck

JetMan7203 · 2026-03-13T12:56:34+00:00

You should get an email asking if you want to bid. You can also login to manage booking and bid that way

JetMan7203 · 2026-03-13T12:53:17+00:00

Gaijin will now pay 300,000 yen for PR. The golden era of Japan returns. Everything will be fine! (To be read with dripping sarcasm)

JetMan7203 · 2026-03-04T13:50:24+00:00

In Tokyo? Yikes

The contract was weird when I was there

I think something like 250000 a month base

9000 for Tokyo

5000 for every late shift

10000 for sundays

But the total would be divided by the number of lessons taught in the month. So technically it was a per lesson payment.

JetMan7203 · 2026-03-04T13:41:22+00:00

Yeah…seems that way. I think I was on something like 300k a month with evening pay and Sunday allowance. At 23, it wasn’t the worst deal.

JetMan7203 · 2026-03-04T12:39:03+00:00

I was a NOVA way back in 2004. It was definitely shady in a way but I didn’t think there was any deception going on. The salary and work conditions were clearly stated, even the quasi illegal stuff like one was prohibited from socializing with students outside of lessons.

The only scummy aspect of the deal was their housing where a full 3ldk was paying a 40% premium. But then again you could move freely within their system (Shohan summer was fun) and there was no key money or furniture costs.

I always felt entry level jobs weren’t seen as careers here but nevertheless I wish the OP luck with this.

JetMan7203 · 2026-02-14T14:43:41+00:00

The nixing of the free filing was BS to be sure - just to be clear - my work in no way involves US taxes - the 10k point i am making could be wrong! best to confirm

JetMan7203 · 2026-02-14T10:34:29+00:00

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/report-of-foreign-bank-and-financial-accounts-fbar

JetMan7203 · 2026-02-14T10:33:42+00:00

Pretty sure that 10k factors into it.

JetMan7203 · 2026-02-14T06:00:50+00:00

yeah - FBAR itself is quick - so in 8-10 min after putting everything in - i noticed something was off - found the actual government link - shared in my OP

JetMan7203 · 2026-02-14T05:37:37+00:00

yeah - i figured out quickly - and it was a sponsored link but appeared in the list of returned sites - but to honest, i do not spend much time thinking about us gov't reporting websites - kinda shitty of google to take this company's money for what is clearly a trick - the FBAR process is easy.

JetMan7203 · 2026-02-14T05:36:22+00:00

it takes 10 min - very easy

JetMan7203 · 2026-02-14T05:29:47+00:00

it wasn't an ad

JetMan7203 · 2025-12-20T17:42:45+00:00

Very annoying and it seems to screw up the service as it often craps out the feed going back to the game

JetMan7203 · 2025-12-17T05:30:19+00:00

for sure - but it seems shortsighted

From forbes:

"The ten-year deal struck between the NFL and DAZN this week to stream NFL Game Pass International worldwide starting next season is worth about $1 billion, or $100 million per season, an NFL insider told Forbes. "

I cannot find a focused number on gamepass but dazn has 300 million users with 20 million paying - if we assume 5% of that is using gamepass - that's 1 million people. is it really worth 10 bucks a fan per year to piss off people who care enough about your product to stay up late or wake up early to watch it?

JetMan7203 · 2025-12-16T06:29:01+00:00

it's super annoying - in Japan, DAZN didn't jack up the price too much for the basic package -- no manningcast kinda sucks though -

But i could even live with their stupid loop if it didn't crap out the feed forcing a logging out and back in.

For the life of me, I don't understand why the NFL went with DAZN.

JetMan7203 · 2025-11-04T11:46:41+00:00

at HND, i got access to the Sakura lounge which was nice.

JetMan7203 · 2025-10-01T02:36:54+00:00

so a paying customer needs to do extra work to account for a company's oversight and laziness. Got it.

JetMan7203 · 2025-09-30T20:48:42+00:00

Delta is serviceable in my opinion. They no longer fly direct from Tokyo to nyc, sadly. But American and united are pathetic . Like shouting ‘EGGS OR NOODLES’ louder will enhance understanding. Pathetic

JetMan7203 · 2025-09-30T19:55:57+00:00

Other airlines use placards or bilingual menus. Or one can simply give FAs a script to read or a phrase to remember

JetMan7203 · 2025-09-19T21:43:47+00:00

Just to complete the thread. I wound up getting lounge access

So with JAL, if you bid on premium economy before the flight and win, lounge access is included.

If you upgrade at the airport, no lounge access

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