Originally Posted by
DavidYYC
Thanks for the reply Pseudo.
Just doing dummy searches now to get a feel for availability as I am waiting for my dates outgoing and return to open up next year, and it seems like that the long haul segments mostly have availability, but its the short haul that don't (yet).
For example YYC-LAX/SFO nothing, but.....
LAX/SFO-NRT-SIN always seems to bring up something.
Thats why I asked this, as I foresee problems trying to string together a complex itin when the airlines make the short NA hops the difficult segs to get seats on.
Yep, totally hear you. I had huge problems getting from the east cost to YUL - ORD/IAD/JFK were all giving me huge headaches, whereas over-the-pond was no (or almost no) issue whatsoever.
I'd say still - depending on how rare the spots you're looking at getting on the long-haul are, you MIGHT want to consider booking with a fake return point and tack on the local flight for $90 when it opens up. That is to say, let's say you're booking F and see a spot on NRT-FRA open up on the 380, or NRT-JFK on the "inspiration of Japan" configuration, or whatever - I'd grab that and to hell with local flights, since those are so hard to get - then I'd just call and fix the local routing when it becomes available.