Originally Posted by
gdrinnen2
I am interested in flying from the US>HKG on 12/26. I recently waitlisted several options, using AM.
For example, I waitlisted all of the below, and Expertflyer shows the following:
CX 845
CX 899
CX 841
I've never flown CX or used a waitlist option. Looking at the seat maps, there are 30+ seats open on the two JFK options and 15 on the EWR. We're somewhere around 60 days out. Am I likely to get these? If so, any chance I find out sooner than 14 days out?
That is a very busy travel day. I'm watching it too from a variety of outports. I think half of the 764 seats out of the USA to HKG (every NA airport) are already sold (which seems high for that far out). I'm not sure how waitlisting works vs. availability found on the website. But I check the website extensively and my guess is IF they release award seats, the earliest (for that particular day) will be perhaps the week before Thanksgiving. As of today we are 51 days out. I see them often start to release some of the new overpriced CHOICE awards some around 40 days out, if they release any at all.
And while their formula is pretty tough to decode, it seems to me that it's not just the number of J seats that determines whether they will release award seats. If PE is pretty full, then it seems their formula won't release J.
Getting back might be even tougher, depending on your target return date.