EFC,
All our accommodation has the Internet, usually both wired and wireless but you can always just chuck a router in if no wireless around. On a personal note, I don't find it necessary to be online 100% of the day and can certainly do everything I need when back in the accommodation so wouldn't waste my time on having a data plan in Japan (Facebook can wait to hear what I had for breakfast). However, if you can't go without seeing a cat video for more than a few minutes and, as you're from the US, then I know AT&T did a great deal on a worldwide data plan that would be a lot less than anything the Japanese offer.
Macmoo,
Just look at the aircraft on ANA's books and you'll see that we won't be going anywhere near an Airbus anytime soon. It's almost a foregone conclusion that, eventually, we'll switch to the 787 but when is anybody's guess. Factor in the absence of 787 freighters, no seniority system and lengthy 'training' and I think we'll be in for an interesting time
