Originally Posted by
mrliu88
I've been monitoring JAL F award closely for about 2 months. In the past usually availability was pretty good T-14. But since about this week, I noticed there's almost 0 F availability all the way to T-14 (from today to Mar 21st for example only one day has F available). I verified using BA site and Alaska site. Has anyone noticed the same? I suspect JAL is blocking or refusing to release F award for mid-late march because of the cherry blossom. I also noticed the business class has been consistently full (or close to full) coming in to mid-late march. Could that be the reason as well?
I currently have 2 J awards ticketed, hoping to upgrade to F. I will keep checking but would appreciate any insights!
I have noticed before that the premium cabins are fairly heavily booked around April 1st. And looking at the amount of luggage being checked in, my guess is that the traffic of japanese companies repatriating staff before March 31st,and expatriating staff after April 1st, may have a heavy influence on the passenger numbers.
But I don't have any statistics to back up my guess.