Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
I'm guessing it's a published fare issue, however you should be ok to fly via LAX to Asia from NYC (most of CX's one way fares from NYC-KUL look to be MPM based). Have you tried substituting an AA flight from NYC-LAX instead of the AS one? That could be the culprit causing it to price separately.
Sounds to me also like it must be a published fare issue, and perhaps because CX's fares don't allow AS segments?
You can certainly do JFK-LAX-HKG on AA/CX or AA/AA on one award in F for 110k, even though it's not the most direct routing.
I figure they priced it as JFK-LAX (12.5k Y award) + LAX-HKG-KUL (110k F award) because that costs less than doing JFK-LAX-HKG (110k F, with invol downgrade on first segment) + HKG-KUL (22.5k J award).