Originally Posted by
macfadsj
I booked a few seats, tried to book a few more in early September, and it was then hard to find a single seat from any AF or KL gateway. It did not appear like AS and other partner flyers had claimed the seats-rather it looked like a quota had been reached or a system wide switch was flipped and all of the seats that have been available 5 days earlier were wiped out.
If a switch was flipped, they unflipped it in late October, because seats suddenly became widely available again. That's when we booked. So either it got switched off again after that, or the seats got used up. Either way, OP probably needs to go with AA.