Originally Posted by
pogonation
Anyone know why waitlists expire so fast? I had waitlists for flights EU-BKK and they expired today so I rebooked them and it says they will expire tomorrow (flying 28th or 29th this month) assume it is because I am close in, but does that mean no more waitlisting after 25th or will I just have to repeat the process every day?
Seems to be the HKG-BKK which is messing up my flights since there is only tailored availability on those legs 29th and 30th for some reason (big event?). Seems CX uses married segment logic too. Not got my hopes up too much.
Just thought I would mention something on here:
Today MAN-HKG became available on 28th. Unfortunately MAN-(HKG)-BKK was only showing available for waitlist. HKG-BKK was still showing as 57,000 business tailored only. I called CX to ask if I could confirm MAN-HKG with HKG-BKK as waitlist and she said MAN-BKK is not available if she searches for it however if she searched as MAN-HKG-BKK it gave lots of availability all at the normal choice level. I managed to ticket MAN-HKG-BKK for the normal 65,000 miles. I could find no-way to do this online and if she hadn't have mentioned it I would have never known.
So seems they can get different connecting availability if you go through the telephone office!
About 10 mins after ticketing this my DUB-HKG-BKK waitlist also came through as confirmed (not that I need it anymore since MAN was my first choice).