Originally Posted by
stephem
This is one of those fares where POS really matters for the I bucket availability. I have messed around with it a bit and found that there is very little US POS availability and that even with POS set to HKG, RF doesnt appear to be reflecting what AA will sell you from a HKG or China point of sale. ITA seems to slightly over display on I bucket availability when default is left to departure city and wildly over display if you set POS to US. AA CN site seems to show less than getting HKG POS via an OTA like Expedia. Expedia works well in that it also displays mixed cabin options, so if you only are doing a one way and plan to drop US-MEX segments you dont care about those being in Y.
What is the AA HKG site? I only get options from the drop down for AA China, not HKG...
I had to find it by searching for American Airlines Hong Kong or something like that. If I’m being honest, this is my first time ever flying AA so I’m a huge noob and it took a long time before I found something that I could actually ticket. I was able to easily pull up at 1150 USD via AMEX Travel, but I was seeing the ~8200 HKD price on Google, albeit unbookable, and I just sat there for a long time trying to find a routing that would work.
Also yes, mine has a flight which I believe is economy only even though all segments say business in the PNR on the website. But also as you said, those segments don’t actually matter to me.