Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
Do you mean that the JL flights are available as BA or CX codeshares, or are you talking about only BA and CX metal flights are available?
Your travel agent is correct. One of the LHR-HND flights is a 351, equipped with the new JL premium cabins. JL is currently guarding those flights jealously because the hard product is so far superior. I expect that it's holding those seats for people who want to pay full, or nearly full, price. Can't speak to the other one, which, IIRC, is a 788.
No, I mean I am required to use another carrier's metal even though there's space (hypothetically) available. I'm not sure how religiously JL is guarding those flights as I flew one inbound.
Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
A quick perusal of these threads will tell you that there are numerous problems with the online tool. That's why many OneWorld Explorer flyers, including me, don't use it.
So what is a good tool to use if I am only theoretically pricing out a trip? I don't want to waste a TA's or AA RTW desk's time with just a theoretical calculation.
Originally Posted by
The Narwhal
I've found certain browsers cause this problem. Avoid Firefox. Safari is hit or miss. Chrome seems to work the best.
Right you are! Using Chrome did fix it.
Originally Posted by
anabolism
This is a fairly recent (and very unwelcome) development: there are now additional inventory restrictions that we run into with RTW fares. Just as airlines can have different inventory for flights booked standalone versus as a connection (married-segment logic), airlines can have different inventory based on an itineraries point of origin/commencement. (There may also be a restriction based on type of fare, but this is unclear). I've run into it with JL and QF flights. If the segments are available to waitlist, I suspect they might clear closer to departure if there is still 'D' (or 'A' or 'L') inventory available standalone.
I guess we will see in a few days. Asking the clanker suggested that JL is protecting the JV and ensuring that BA gets their "fair" share of the revenue by refusing to carry me when a competing route is available from BA. I don't know where it got this information from, or whether it completely invented it when it didn't have a good answer, though.