Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
Able to ticket or able to see? AS has lots of phantom inventory that can't be booked.
Inside of 330 days or not? The Avios airlines, CX, JL all get first crack at CX, JL and Avios before T-330 hits.
AA and AS have SABRE, most of the rest of OW runs Amadeus (read: inventory gets translated from one booking system to another). Is this CX you're booking all bookable on AA?
Also... what makes you think AS is rubbing their hands and twirling a mustache going "muahahaha, you can't have this"? If the partners are still denying AS inventory for whatever reason it's still a partner problem.
Alaska can’t see and agents cannot ticket inventory using either internal Image or native Sabre - which is a change from a year ago where it was still ticketable via native Sabre bookings. Qantas and Finnair have both been able to ticket these for me lately. I am aware that these airlines run their PSS on altea but Cathay uses ATPCO to handle distribution of inventory to both Sabre and Amadeus. I don’t know enough about the agreements to conclusively say the reason Alaska can’t book these is on the Alaska or Cathay side. I have talked with a few engineers on the new flight search engine team that wrapped the legacy ascom res system and have gotten conflicting answers from them. I am not blaming this on Alaska I simply don’t know, but if you more information I’d love to hear it.