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Old Oct 13, 2014 | 4:43 am
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Originally Posted by dsquared37
I'm trying to book an award and see a particular CX availability on BA's site and via KVS. Alternatively AA tells me there is no availability and the KVS awards/OneWorld also shows no availability.

I've heard phone agents claim award allocation can be toward specific airlines and not the alliance as a whole but it was my belief that those particular flights were being blocked (eg UA and O*A flights a few years back). Is this phantom BA availability?

Is there another explanation?
BA.com is known to show phantom CX award availability. Some airlines do provide additional award inventory to their members but I don't think any oneworld airline provides selective availability to oneworld partners - it is either all or nothing.

KVS takes its availability information from either BA, CX, JL or QF depending on the search method. Awards/OneWorld uses Qantas.com and Awards/BA-OneWorld uses BA.com. So if it is shown on BA.com it should show on KVS Awards/BA-OneWorld, but this may be showing the same phantom availability.
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