Originally Posted by
jmail1
I am looking to book a discounted economy fare on a US-Tokyo flight operated by JAL with an AA Codeshare at 330 days out. AA’s booking calendar goes out to 330 days, but at 326-330 days the only fares according to EF are full are in each cabin, it shows F7 J7 Y7 and is zeroed out in every other fare bucket. Everything up until 326 days out shows plenty of discount fare buckets available.
There might be no logic to this, but all direct flights on those days (AA operated and AA codeshare with JAL) follow that FJY7 and everything else zeros.
Does AA typically release those buckets at XXX days, or is it some other type of faring dump that’s not daily?
Well, it seems you've picked up somewhat of a pattern in that they tend to not open lower fare buckets immediately at end-of-schedule, but tend to open more as schedule window slides forward a few days/weeks. Without knowing route you are looking at, I suspect you will be hard-pressed to beat the $357 fares on LAX-HND if bucket availability opens on them. I suppose they could file cheaper fare filings on route at some point (these are currently cheapest filings), but they probably won't be much less. These are 90 day AP BE fares and have an 'O' fare basis (so are dependent on O bucket being open). It appears to be a fare match of cheapest DL BE fares on LAX-HND.
