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Old May 12, 2010 | 6:25 pm
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normcpa
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Originally Posted by kkohany
Hi All,

I just called AAdvantage center and found out that there is no single JL F award availability on Jun.03-21 for any routings such as JFK-NRT, SFO-NRT or ORD-NRT.

So, I am holding JFK-NRT-ICN on AA F(Tpac) and JL C (NRT-ICN), however, I really want to try out JL F suite.

Is there any chance to get first class for flight from JFK/SFO/ORD to nrt on June 03-21 on JAL?


Thanks in advance.
We were flying to Bhutan from BKK in March 2007, and had arranged for JL F service LAX-NRT and the next day NRT-BKK to tie into the Druk Air flight. Everything was great until the Bhutanese government commandeered our seats for our departure date! To make a long story short we were reassigned to a Druk Air flight a day earlier, thus destroying my precious one-year-in-advance-acquired-JL F award seats!! My wife had just read something about "willing things to happen," and she was sure we'd get JL F to NRT on the earlier date in spite of the fact we were now just a few weeks out. (The NRT-BKK situation was OK with C class, no F available on the rearranged itinerary.)

Well, believe it or not, my wife was right, and the two JL F seats magically appeared a week or so before our departure date! I'm pretty happy about that, as I would have been apoplectic if we had wound up in Business (or unthinkable coach) after losing our fabulous itinerary. So miracles do happen!
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