LX is now blocking F though I believe.

Never was a problem finding LX as long as you wanted to look 7-10 months ahead.

Now, it's gone.

As we have come to understand in the air travel business, they do not roll out anything new or beneficial. Every year is just finding the low hanging fruit so they can cut it off.

Today's F blocking and J availability reduction is tomorrow's cuts.

It's easy to envision when we have no F availability or the fees go up to 75% of the purchased ticket prices, and J is impossible to book on anything but the "native" carrier's seats.

I don't quite understand how these carriers can operate in an alliance where everyone gets to pick their own rules in terms of what's available to redeem and get points on. Seems to be only a gesture towards an alliance, just basically code sharing and a mutual agreement to ignore the priority tags on luggage.