Originally Posted by
JohnAx
You might try calling the airline yourself and perhaps asking for a supervisor if the agent says no. And if it's worth the trouble, you can also try calling a globally-remote JAL office (e.g. Tokyo) - no one has mentioned that JAL is heavy into point-of-sale availability, but that may be the case.
It would be disappointing to learn that JAL controls its capacity so tightly that A seats are never available. Please update your thread with any progress or lack thereof.
I did not feel like spending time and money on phone call for this "mess" so I asked my TA to call JAL ... and ... no luck (they can confirm D, but not A booking class). We've re-worked the trip to cut out all the JAL segments but 1 left for open for next year e.g. May/Jun 2008 ... will see, I may just cut that one out also.