Originally Posted by
perktd
The flight is actually PDX-KOA and has been pulled from the schedule if you try to book a flight. I just called reservations and was told the flight had not been cancelled yet. Therefore it was only eligible for a refund. I will just need to be patient.
Looking at whether it is bookable or not does tell you whether or not it is still in the schedule. The flight has now been "pulled from the schedule" for flights before before April 16th. For flights from the 16th to 30th, it is still in the schedule, but the fare bucket inventories have all been zeroed out so it is not bookable. Inventory availability sites like flightavailability.bcdtravel.com and ExpertFlyer can tell you definitively whether or not it has actually been pulled, or whether it is still in the schedule with all fare buckets zeroed out. There's probably a decent chance the flights in later April will be removed tomorrow with new schedule load. Before everyone jumps to the conclusion that this is only about avoiding refunds, consider the impact of cancelling thousands of flights at once on already overburdened call centers.
If you go through the weekly OAG Changes posts on airliners.net, you will see that the airlines have been reducing April schedules each weekend for the last month or so. It is not actually the case that all the changes are being made on a last-minute cancellation basis.