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Old Feb 6, 2017, 10:25 pm
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uncommonsensical
 
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this is just awful. these 'alliances' are completely falling apart. with the new transfer bonus to Avios from hotels, i just checked to see if this situation has changed. it's obviously only gotten worse.

i have used Avios to book CX intra-Asia for years. last minute flights were always available. now, yep... every flight is blocked from 6 days out to everywhere in Asia. CX has soooo many flights to BKK daily that there are always tons of extra seats. well... unless you have avios= nada/blocked.

there is so much competition on these routes that it's not like were going to buy a CX ticket by default. and then there is the bizarre bag interlining thing.

worse (for CX), it will tilt people towards making KUL or SIN their asia hub instead of HKG. so far, no problem finding flights out of KUL. and KUL- PNH/SGN are 4500 avios. between KUL-BKK there are 4 flights going, 5 coming tmr, plus 1 for today leaving in 3 hours.
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