Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - H-Class (AAdvantage eligible) CX fares




SAAdFlyer
Aug 8, 03, 6:00 am
I have been trying to price economy tickets to BOM from BOS using AA/CX at Cathay's USA website. Of late, the booking engine only returns M or K fares, which are not mileage eligible. The only other choice is to price unrestricted coach fares, which are the same as the lowest business ones. Pricing the same fares on AA's website pretty much yields the unrestricted coach fare, regardless of whether I select the CX flights or the AA codeshare.

In the past, the CX website used to reliably give H fares, but this no longer seems an option. I tried calling the CX reservations desk, but they appear to have a fare schedule of their own, i.e. an M fare from LAX to BOM is USD 986; for the past 3 years the CX website H-fare was 1200-1400; the reservations desk is quoting me 2300!

Any one have any ideas what changed? Is there any way to get the website to price anything but the lowest/highest fares only? Is there any site where I can actually see all the published fares for any given airline?

Thanks!
P.S. This is cross posted in the AA/CX forums

[This message has been edited by SAAdFlyer (edited 08-08-2003).]


SHADO
Aug 8, 03, 6:45 am
You are catching some of CXs "Fare of the Month" deals for August to be flown later on. When they lock those seats, or they are sold, the next level fares will appear. Unfortunately, you have to wait for the lowest H fare to appear.

You could try by getting one of the low fares to appear, lock it in, then open up another webbrowser window and do the same itinerary and see if the next higher fare appears there.

You CAN see all of CXs fare listings at Travelocity. Go to "Fare Listings" scrolling down on their front page on the lower left. It's written in a small font.

Good Luck flying the world's BEST airline!

SHADO



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