Originally Posted by
Gongzuokuang
Whenever STANDARD is available, then CHOICE is also available. Of course, it would be a stupid selection. But there are many times when CHOICE is available, but STANDARD is not. I have been heavily monitoring flights over the next 10 weeks for several trips, and there are definitely MANY days where CHOICE is available, and STANDARD is not. For example, I looked at CX873 departing the week of Nov 12. On each day you can book a CHOICE (J) seat, but would be waitlisted for a STANDARD seat.
Ok, I see it now... I was also looking at SFO-HKG, but around 330-360 days out, there it seems to be no difference between Standard / Choice. I looked at Nov 14, and see the waitlisted Standard Awards, with Choice available.
Originally Posted by
beach86
Better. The MPC are able to unlock seats that the online system cannot see.
I'll have to remember this trick the next time, though I do wish CX would just fix their system. Seems with the new website this year, there's more and more things that require calling them to get an answer, I wish they'd go the opposite direction.