Originally Posted by
jbalmuth
It's extremely unpleasant to find that an airline has restricted inventory to the extent that, for all practical purposes, it's unobtainable. The advise that I would offer to other RTW travellers is to ensure that they familiarize themselves and adopt tools that alert them to when such rare inventory becomes available for booking.
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The OP was wanting a low booking class on a route that has only 3 flights per week and the flights are busy. Taking 2 weeks from 17 June, for example, 1 flight is full in economy , one has K class available and the other 4 only have B and Yclass available . Doesn't seem that it is restricting L class , just that the flights are busy.
Leaving it to the last minute to try and make a booking on a low inventory on a route with few flights seems a pretty risky approach to me and not the airline's fault
Unless it was the last sector, the OP did have other options available such as not going to Hawaii and going straight to LAX/SFO