Originally Posted by
oneworld4u
On equality of delivery between member airlines, let me reinforce a statement I have posted before – a key tenet of oneworld is that our member airlines should not differentiate between their “own” FFP cardholders and those from their oneworld partners in delivery of oneworld services and benefits. We do police this and if breaches of this code are identified they are taken up with the airline concerned.
oneworld4u - Thank you so much for taking the time and interest to answer these questions. If we ever meet up somewhere, I will definitely buy you a beer!
As to the availability of award seats for frequent flyers from related airlines, I do have to say that Cathay is very bad about freeing up award seats to AA that it otherwise makes available to its own members. It has happened to me before, and I am now, again, having a heck of a time scheduling a OW award (331 days out because the availability that I see on Cathay's web site does not translate into AA availability!). This is compounded by the fact that AA has now reduced the hold times on their OW awards from two weeks to five days. Is this a OW-wide change? How is someone supposed to schedule a ticket that far in advance with such a short hold time?
Certainly I also echo the sentiment already expressed here as well that if everything worked as you say it should, then the fact that we had a level playing field would create a lot of goodwill. The other missing piece and I do understand that it is a system limitation, is the inability of AA to book inventory more than 331 days out. Is there a move to standardize the inventory availability?
Thank you again.