Originally Posted by
buylowsellhigh
Experiencing a very strange issue with AS, curious if anyone also noticed.
Example 1: SIN-HND-LAX
Segment by Segment
SIN-HND = UNAVAILABLE
HND-LAX = AVAILABLE
SIN-HND-KIX = AVAILABLE
(sin-hnd is all same flight and date)
Multi city search:
SIN-HND-KIX + HND-LAX = AVAILABLE
SIN-HND + HND LAX = UNAVAILABLE
Thinking it is phantom inventory, I booked SIN-HND-KIX + HND-LAX and the booking system TICKETED the reservation lol. So right now I may have to fly this strange itinerary (its fine because it gives me 20 hrs in osaka before i need to get a $100 domestic ticket to HND.
Example 2: LAX to TYO
LAX-HND = UNAVAILABLE
SFO-LAX-HND = AVAILABLE (same tpac flight date and #)
I'm not extremely motivated to book a flight to reposition from LAX to SFO just to fly back to LAX again but I guess I can do that if need be if desparate times comes to desparate measures, but has anyone worked their way around these strange inventory issues?
Saw this multtiple times past few days. Finally today, thought would at least get one bird in hand, so tried to book LAX-SFO-HDN-DEL although, as usual, my final intention in PHX-BOM (crazy, I know, but done it sevelral times by buying separate tickets to LAX and BOM so I can get JAL F and J most of the way). Only to find in last purchase step that the initinerary is NOT bookable. Then spent couplde of hours with a patient AS rep, who finally said there is an ongoing issue since beginning of this year with phantom inventory from CZ, KE and JA with no ETA on a fix. So caved in and booked something on Qatar economy just so that I dont miss critical dates.
Wonder if other than trying to book dummy itins daily to see when one goes through, if there is any other way to get alerted when the issue is fixed
