Originally Posted by
const3
Wondering if anyone heard an update on this issue. Zero JFK-SVO availability on any dates and the connecting flight I checked that show available also fail to book at the end giving an error. I thought about booking one way business JFK-SVO-TLL and just skipping the last leg, but ran into that error. Just seems crazy to have no partner availability of any sort and not give an explanation.
Still no SU availability also IME. Shows in search, but fails at ticketing. Then after a while stops showing.
This is not uncommon, in that there's been times when other airlines and or routes have been zero'ed out for a long time. I mean some airlines and routes have been blocked by DL for years. For example, HNL-ICN (KE52-53/54-55) route is completely blocked and has been for some 4+ years. Never, ever, available in O or X: blocked completely (have to book KE1-2 HNL-NRT instead).
This airline wide blockage (by SU I suspect, not DL) is sort of like NZ (or to a certain degree QF) never being available to book in *A. Happens in all alliances. Some airlines just don't cooperate and don't release almost any - and sometimes literally no - awards to others in the alliance. Other times the ticketing airline blocks it, like DL - I suspect (or could be KE) - blocking most route if not all KE flights Fri, Sat & Sun (leaving only Mon-Thu available).