Originally Posted by
imaflyertalkuserwow
It’s real, but mixed cabin. Thankfully MUC-CLT is J. Domestic is Y to MIA. I often find the opposite; long haul Y, domeshit J.
It is not real because it errors out at payment screen.
Originally Posted by
JetAirways77W
I've been getting a number of similar issues trying to combine a domestic AA leg with an international AA leg at 57.5k around a similar timeframe. Examples include FCO-JFK-SFO on 4/1, as well as BOS-JFK-LHR on 3/23 -- in both cases, the availability shows up on both AS and ExpertFlyer, but actually attempting to book those awards will result in a "could not confirm partner space" error.
Weirdly, this is not universal; in the first case I could book ATH-JFK-SFO at 57.5k (J the whole way through), and in the second case I could book just the JFK-LHR award without tacking BOS onto it. Calling in doesn't help; agents encounter the same issues. Trying to change booked awards (e.g., changing ATH-JFK to FCO-JFK) results in the same error.
Right, it errored out at payment screen. Based on previous experiences in early 2023, calling in would not help at all as the agent encountered the same error.
My guess would be those are really phantom seats. AS seems to have phantom seats with ALL its partners, probably due to their system never updates the initial availability to stay current. They obviously do not have incentives to do so with the planned devaluation in the work, since early 2023.