Originally Posted by Weymar Osborne

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to book myself a one-way from somewhere in Southeast Asia to Los Angeles this August. I've been looking at many airlines and alliances and the overall trend seems to be that availability is very, very sparse. I've been poking around with EVA Air's search tool and I noticed when I search on their website it actually seems to provide ample options. For example, I was looking at HAN-LAX on August 18 and it gave me over a dozen itineraries including some entirely on BR through TPE and others on *A partners like through ICN on OZ, through PVG on CA and UA, through SZX on ZH and CA, etc. I'm kind of skeptical whether this actually represents real award space or just itinerary options regardless of whether any actual seats are open. For the itineraries exclusively on BR, if I search through BR's own EVA/UNI Air redemption link all flights show up as waitlists, and if I search for the other options they give such as on OZ, CA, UA, etc. on another website like MileagePlus or Aeroplan I don't see those listed flights available. Before I commit to transferring over a large amount of points from my credit card I want to make sure that if EVA lists an itinerary whether it's actually bookable. Anyone have any experience or insight with this?