Originally Posted by
silverlim
As well, I couldn't get a direct flight from JFK-HKG on CX F on Jan 30 on one world site but if I do jfk-kul on the same day, it will give me connecting flight through HKG on CX F. Why is that so?
Married sector availability.
For passengers looking to travel just JFK-HKG, CX thinks it will be able to sell first class inventory for the higher yielding F class.
For connecting passengers, because CX faces more competition it will offer lower yielding A class, plus this also allows it to sell a seat on the feeder flight.
Often, if the shorter feeder flight itself is almost sold out, this will also limit availability on the longhaul JFK-HKG sector as well.
If you make the booking, and then decide you want to change/cancel the HKG-KUL sector, you would probably have to cancel both JFK-HKG-KUL and hope you still get availability.