Originally Posted by
bannanaspace
My bad, should have elaborated and not spoken for CM as a whole. Been watching a couple specific CM routes into PTY for weeks now for next June, every single award flight in the entire month was stripped out between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning on AP. You are correct, might be a glitch and might be 100% intentional but I'll choose my words more carefully next time. For what it's worth, the flights are still visible and bookable on UA, but not AP.
That does sound like it could be some kind of glitch. Which is odd, because I looked for PTY to and from a bunch of places like LAX, BOG, EZE, MIA, for various dates across the rest of the year, and got tons of results. So who knows what's going on there.
Originally Posted by
warrens
I'm increasingly convinced these are all anti-fraud measures. The points broker scams have kept on growing in size and audaciousness and I'm sure the other airlines have had enough.
I don't know how much the other airlines care about fraud vs these brokers and other scammers just creating huge imbalances in redemptions such that that they want to cut back on the number of seats Aeroplan is consuming. Airlines pay each other very little for FFP redemptions, and the hope for the most part is that they essentially net out. If Aeroplan is redeeming 5 or 10 seats on LH group metal for every one that M&M is redeeming on AC metal, they could easily want throttle that back or shut it down.
Originally Posted by
Elvasoshexai
I've been trying to use UA to search and it feels like every single LHG flight I'm looking at has some married segment logic, moreso that when I was looking earlier this year. Does anyone know if the same married segment rules would apply across all partners if I try to call and book through AP?
Married segments should be the same across all programs. If the UA site is showing YUL-ZRH-FCO as available but not YUL-ZRH, it will almost certainly be the same for Aeroplan.