I just tested those dates for CGK>DOH>PHL on economy, and was able to get past the passenger entry, but failed on business.

There seems to be something very peculiar happening with results for QR business awards on Cathay’s engine when it switches to "Flexible with Travel Dates”. For example, searching for business awards on CGK > DOH and DOH > PHL separately for 2023-04-17 on the native engine (i.e. without using the script), it will show an alert that "Fare search by ‘Flexible with travel dates’ is not available for your chosen itinerary” and that it will redirect you to search with "Must travel on these dates". It then shows business award availability for QR which also errors out past the passenger detail entry.

I tried looking for dates where both QR and other airlines are available in business, to see if it’s a QR issue or a general flexible date issue, and was able to find an example with LHR-HND on 2023-05-10, which shows business availability for both JL and QR. The JL flight breezes past the passenger entry, while the QR one gets stuck on invalid fare as well.

I’ve heard unsubstantiated rumours of QR no longer releasing business award space to CX starting next year. If that’s what’s happening here, it looks like CX may be restricting business award booking for QR, and yet somehow the actual available award space is still leaking into the results. My speculative assumption is that IT attempted to hide availability from the results, but half assed it and forgot to remove it from the "must travel on these dates" part. Considering the page that redirects to the “must travel on” redirect loads unstyled half of the time, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if they simply just forgot it exists.



Evan, I think you might have to call in to check on this one.

Has anyone succeeded in booking any QR business awards lately?