Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - On-line site for checking CX award availability?

Is there a site that gives availability of the Cathay award classes (Z, U, X) (and are those the classes we book in when using AA awards?)

Asiamiles used to work pretty good. Of course what's available there may not be available to AA but it's a good starting point.

If you go to www.cathaypacific.com and log into your Marco Polo Account or Asiamiles account, you can then click on 'book your trip' you will find 'book your fares & availability,' from here you can choose to book an award flight or book an upgrade award. Choose your desired reward, and enter your route, and the dates wanted, and number of passengers. The computer will run a search and feed you back whether available, or if not available if there is anything within 7 days.

It doesn't tell you how many seats are left, but does tell you if seats are immedialty available. You can make the booking online, or call the Marco Polo Club and follow up with a booking.

I think (I am not 100% sure of this) that you cannot get onto any waitlist on the website, but can confirm the booking if the seat is immediatly available.

Just a useful point, very often if you are looking for more than one person, but there is only 1 seat available, the system will not inform you of this, and simply inform you that the itenary is not available. If you don't get the flight for more than one person, try searching if one seat is available. If it is, book it (There is not penalty for cancelling), and call MPO or Asiamiles (I'm not sure if AA will allow waitlisting or what their system is) & waitlist for the additional seats in a new booking, That way you improve your odds by having one seat in hand, and only are waiting for a second.

If you are not a member of Marco Polo or Asiamiles, I suggest you to join Asiamiles (Even if you don't use it), and use the login. As far as I believe, there is no charge for this.

I am looking for award availability online and sometimes I get a standard radio button showing availability and sometimes one with a circle around it. What is the difference between the two?

Just a useful point, very often if you are looking for more than one person, but there is only 1 seat available, the system will not inform you of this, and simply inform you that the itenary is not available. If you don't get the flight for more than one person, try searching if one seat is available. If it is, book it (There is not penalty for cancelling), and call MPO or Asiamiles (I'm not sure if AA will allow waitlisting or what their system is) & waitlist for the additional seats in a new booking, That way you improve your odds by having one seat in hand, and only are waiting for a second.

If you are not a member of Marco Polo or Asiamiles, I suggest you to join Asiamiles (Even if you don't use it), and use the login. As far as I believe, there is no charge for this.

Unfortunately, AA doesn't have waitlist capability, as I hit this problem, a friend and I want to do CX FC to HKG and BKK. Only one seat per flight and I have to call back every day, even though it shows 11 of the 12 seat in FC on both flights as available. the one seat not available is our reward seats, one on each flight.

Guess CX expects their FC seats to get sold right up to the last minute? No problem getting 2 JL FC seats on the return, PEK-NRT-SFO.