Originally Posted by
andrew148
Yes it is very frustrating. I have been looking for many months now for 1 J ticket from YYZ to HKG... For reference today, I saw that there is reward space with CX YYZ to HKG in AA Advantage program, but on the same day there is real ticket in AS (only phantom) and not showing ticket available in BA Avios.
I really don't understand how the tickets are released. When I called AS, the agent said CX used to release tickets daily per the agreement of 331 days (?). But now it is very sporadic, sometimes every 3 -4 weeks....
Other than checking daily, is there other suggestion on a more effective to hunt this one J ticket?
Key words. Only when BA and better yet, QF, also show space, that you can be 90% sure the space is available. Whether it is bookable by AS, remains uncertain.
Did you guys still not understand that CX is not the same CX before? Just a couple months ago on its conference CX said it hoped to resume to X% of its former schedules by late 2024... Late 2024!
On top of that, the seats on their NA-HKG routes are selling like hotcakes because China and US still have not resumed most of the flights like pre-Pandemic, and probably will never be at least within 2023 given the relationship between the 2 countries.
If you are looking at Origin from Europe, then you literally can buy a MUC-HKG r/t in business class with less than 2000 euro for Sept flights based on a friend's DP (he bought it a couple weeks ago.)
NA-HKG? forget about it.