This blog started off by focussing on NZ’s smaller 3rd stage airlines, past and present. The peak seasons for flying in Japan run from late December to mid-January (for New 12 months’s holidays), April and Could (the variable Golden Week holidays) as well as July and August (the Obon summer season holidays); there’s also a smaller-scale Silver Week holiday in mid-September that causes congestion.\n\nDespite the consolidation of the trade, we are going to probably continue to see lower airfares, especially …