Originally Posted by
dvs7310
That's quite interesting and would explain why there were times I could find availability when the airline would insist there isn't any. Something EF needs to address to justify their monthly fee.
Seems it's a way that the airlines can effectively shut down ex-CAI DONEx's without explicitly pulling the fare like BA did. A bit frustrating when before all you had to do was find the first segment out of CAI on your preferred airline then the rest of the ticket was more or less fair game. I really hope we don't see that trend on ex-TYO as well since TYO is actually a typical origination point for regularly priced business fares too. CAI and to a lesser extent OSL not so much despite OSL being the point of origin for several 'sale' fares in past years.
It's difficult these days, as availability is essentially a product [pun intended] of POC * POS * preceding flights within 24 hours (sometimes married, sometimes not technically married but still considered so). Good point a good way to make ex-CAI xONEx have a difficult time would be to restrict POC CAI availabilities, although that would potentially hurt other travellers ex-CAI, too. I think it would be difficult to implement that for ex-TYO without affecting the business on a wider scale.