Airline passengers these days are packed in tightly. My seat mates suffered close quarters with my miserable cold. It was a long uneventful flight for most of our journey. Then we passengers flew some very un friendly skies as we tried to approach Narita Airport during the worst typhoon in Tokyo since the 1940s. In the end, the pilot refused to land in such dangerous conditions and our plane was diverted to Osaka where our carrier put two plane loads of passengers up for the night. We received vouchers to travel the rest of the way to Tokyo on the famous bullet train.