Originally Posted by
8592nd
Desperate to find something other than this horrendous system, use my points, and quit this program for good. The elevated plugin made it bearable but it's a total mess without it. I'm massively regretting making them my main choice for building up points, they make it as hard as possible.
Any simple business search from 5+ cities in Europe to 5 cities in Asia comes up with nothing, no matter when I search, and if I remember correctly they don't get nearly as many seats with QR etc as they used to. Yet they still force me to search one date at a time and glitch out half the time anyway. I see talk about using AA.com or searching on BA's website, but open seats generally don't show up when I go to search the same thing on Asia Miles.
Originally Posted by
levelnine
There is no alternative way of searching CX-exclusive availability quickly. Their main focus is hobbling attempts by third parties to make their program more usable through search tools and add-ons. They don't want you to be able to actually use your points.
Last month I thought about quit collecting Asia Miles, but when I checked a couple of weeks ago, it was funny suddenly CX started releasing a lot of seats for Asia Miles with post devaluation prices. I couldn't manage to burn it all, but 40k pts left, I'm fairly happy that I was able to book JL J seats(my first ever J TPAC on JL, I've only flown F and Y😉 ) last month still cheaper than CX seats price starting this month. I think BA has recently devalued JL seats, possibly CX seats as well yet again, without announcement of any sort. Even after post Asia Miles devaluation, CX and JL seats are still cheaper via CX than redemptions via BA, so I guess I'll continue to collect Asia Miles, perhaps only when there's a bonus. I have a love hate relationship.