Originally Posted by
phlwookie
I can't imagine it's going to be overly easy to find international F inventory though.
On CX+BA, if you want to do a RTW routing? It's not horrible at all. And it's not like US had access to
any SQ longhaul F+LH F before 3/31, and LX F TATL was pretty much nil, especially to the West Coast of the US.
JL is problematic, and MH won't get you across the ocean, but arguably
for the moment if you want to do RTW with Hong Kong/Europe stops, you're in better shape than you were in *A. The downside is that OW is weaker in some places in the US than *A is; for instance, out of SEA (where I am based), I have four longhaul *A airlines to choose from to get across an ocean: LH, OZ, BR and NH. I have one longhaul OW airline (BA), and since AS isn't a US partner, CX out of YVR/SFO/LAX is useless for me without a positioning flight- I'd have to backtrack to ORD to fly CX on one ticket . So I'm glad I cashed in before 3/31... the tricky part is often the domestic positioning flight to the gateway, not the longhaul premium cabin across the ocean (OZ and BR have ridiculous amounts of space out of SEA).
Originally Posted by
NA-Flyer
I wonder when US will introduce one way award of half the price of round trip?
To make a prediction based on a paraphrase a Nancy Pelosi quote: Never. Is never good enough for you?
I think US will just merge into AA, and that's when you'll get one-ways...
Oh and one other thought:
You know the "trick" where we'd price USA-> North Asia(dest)->Europe(stop)->USA (90K) for cheaper for USA->Europe->USA (100K)?
I wonder if it was easier just easier to change the USA->North Asia pricing to get rid of that "trick" than to fix US's stone knives and bearskins computers...