Originally Posted by
moondog
This is the first time I've ever seen them drop an entire 2 weeks of close in options since I've started using calendar search. Typically, there wouldn't be award inventory on the domestic flights to the gateway cities on all days (except for 1), so DFW-TYO wouldn't show up even if there were seats on offer from SAN or SFO. Maybe it's some sort of controlled test?
Yes, close-in domestic saver awards to these popular gateway cities are almost as scarce. Searching from gateway cities would normally result in better availability, but I've also found instances (not close-in awards) where prepending an AA segment actually uncovered a JL award that didn't show up otherwise (as though they were married segments on two different carriers).
Originally Posted by
nas6034
the east/midwest flights follow almost the same transpac routing as the west coast flights. east/midwest has BOS/JFKx2/ORDx2(soon)/DFW. West coast has SAN/LAXx2/SFOx2. more or less the same frequency. however there has rarely been any J/F transpac flights available. maybe here or there a flight with 10 J seats but nothing consistent to place your money on. this all changed right around daylight savings.
I was talking about transpacific flights from East Coast/Midwest more generally, not limiting to just JL flights.
Originally Posted by
Flying for Fun
From the West Coast, you also have SEA and YVR. There is availability from YVR every day through May 1st, some days as many as 6 seats.
James
Yes, I've also found availability in general from Canadian cities is much better, relatively speaking.