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Old Jul 16, 2020 | 4:55 pm
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Originally Posted by nootka
I am trying to search for CGD-ZRH and it will only show me Lufthansa flights. If I choose CDG-LIS or CDG-BRU it shows availability for other partners. Is there some rule that I don't know about? I checked Expert Flyer for 2 weeks and it shows no availability.
I checked CDG-ZRH for couple random dates Aug 13 & Sep 23 and both show availability on LX633 & LX639 in business & economy. Let me know if you have any specific dates and I can check for you.
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Old Jul 16, 2020 | 5:02 pm
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Thank you so much for the offer. I am actually looking for 2 business class seats on LX ZRH-YUL for the first week of June 2021. I would like to try out LX as I have never flown with them before. I have my whole trip figured out except for the last leg home. There are lots of flights via the USA but I just don't know how the US will be in a year... Ugh, decisions, decisions.

EDIT: It looks like all LX flights vanish on the ZRH-YUL route after May 13. So I am guessing this is means that LX award flights are available 305 weeks out?

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Old Jul 16, 2020 | 5:24 pm
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LX only showing availability to 13 May 21 so far. 2 business class award seats available on plenty of days up till then.
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Old Jul 16, 2020 | 5:30 pm
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Originally Posted by YYCCL3
LX only showing availability to 13 May 21 so far. 2 business class award seats available on plenty of days up till then.
Yeah, I just noticed that myself. I wonder if Aeroplan will let me make a free change to my mRTW if I do it before Aug 31? I just don't want to miss out on my SYD-AUH-CDG first class apartments
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Old Jul 17, 2020 | 11:46 am
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So I just called Aeroplan and they said that they couldn't book my ticket on their system because my route couldn't even show the MPM. I asked her what the city pair milage was and she said she couldn't even tell me because the system woudln't let her. I asked if she could just find the MPM from YHZ-SYD and she said that wasn't possible either. She even talked to her supervisor and apparently my route couldn't be calculated by the system.

Has anyone else ever experience this? Should I just call again and hope for a different agent and supervisor?
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Old Jul 17, 2020 | 12:16 pm
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Originally Posted by nootka
So I just called Aeroplan and they said that they couldn't book my ticket on their system because my route couldn't even show the MPM. I asked her what the city pair milage was and she said she couldn't even tell me because the system woudln't let her. I asked if she could just find the MPM from YHZ-SYD and she said that wasn't possible either. She even talked to her supervisor and apparently my route couldn't be calculated by the system.

Has anyone else ever experience this? Should I just call again and hope for a different agent and supervisor?
I would HUCA. I was able to book 2 trips segment by segment. One in North America and the other was a mRTW. You sometimes need the right agent that knows what to do which seems rare these days as they laid off a number of the more experienced ones.
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Old Jul 17, 2020 | 1:05 pm
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Originally Posted by MillennialMiles
I would HUCA. I was able to book 2 trips segment by segment. One in North America and the other was a mRTW. You sometimes need the right agent that knows what to do which seems rare these days as they laid off a number of the more experienced ones.
I figured out what the problem is: the TG first class flight I was trying to book was a phantom flight =(
But at least I know that my route was actually valid.
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Old Jul 17, 2020 | 4:48 pm
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Originally Posted by nootka
I figured out what the problem is: the TG first class flight I was trying to book was a phantom flight =(
But at least I know that my route was actually valid.
Did you see the availability on ExpertFlyer but not on Aeroplan's search engine? There are reports that EY F shows up on Aerolan.com that can be booked but phone agents cant see it.
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Old Jul 17, 2020 | 11:06 pm
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Originally Posted by MillennialMiles
Did you see the availability on ExpertFlyer but not on Aeroplan's search engine? There are reports that EY F shows up on Aerolan.com that can be booked but phone agents cant see it.
I saw 2 F EY tickets available. I was able to "book" them online but the agent couldn't. So after much back and forth, they were able to book 2 single F tickets on EY.
This whole ordeal took literally all day and 4 CSRs, 3 HUCA, 2 supervisors but it's done! Thanks, everyone for all your help.

YYZ-IAD (UA X)
IAD-BRU (UA J) Polaris
BRU-CDG (SN X) stop over

CDG-AUH-SYD (EY F A380 Apartments!) Destination

SYD-HND-LAX (NH J/F) Can't wait to try "The Suite!
LAX-YVR-YYZ (AC J)
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Old Jul 17, 2020 | 11:13 pm
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All of the agents were not able to see the MPM. The would just plug in my route and the system wouldn't spit out a MPM so they assumed it was over MPM. After the 3rd HUCA the last agent was able to help. I told him that another agent told me it was a valid booking when I called before, so he asked his supervisor. Oddly enough, the route wasn't valid on YUL-SYD but it was on YYZ-SYD which is a smaller MPM. So I don't understand what is going on right now.
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Old Jul 19, 2020 | 9:09 am
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Originally Posted by nootka
I saw 2 F EY tickets available. I was able to "book" them online but the agent couldn't. So after much back and forth, they were able to book 2 single F tickets on EY.
This whole ordeal took literally all day and 4 CSRs, 3 HUCA, 2 supervisors but it's done! Thanks, everyone for all your help.

YYZ-IAD (UA X)
IAD-BRU (UA J) Polaris
BRU-CDG (SN X) stop over

CDG-AUH-SYD (EY F A380 Apartments!) Destination

SYD-HND-LAX (NH J/F) Can't wait to try "The Suite!
LAX-YVR-YYZ (AC J)
How likely the covid will be stabilized by early next year in the US ? I knew this year it is almost impossible as US 🇺🇸 did not even hit its peak yet, anyone could suggest a good time to book EY F ticket via the US 🇺🇸 next year? Or it will be 100% purely safe as you have an isolated apartment on the plane on your own?
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Old Jul 19, 2020 | 9:44 am
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Originally Posted by terencelai
How likely the covid will be stabilized by early next year in the US ? I knew this year it is almost impossible as US 🇺🇸 did not even hit its peak yet, anyone could suggest a good time to book EY F ticket via the US 🇺🇸 next year? Or it will be 100% purely safe as you have an isolated apartment on the plane on your own?
I honestly have no idea. But I actually changed the outgoing leg to start from YUl direct to Europe. I am going to keep the last leg via LAX because I really want to try The Suite. But as for EY First, I just wanted to try that also. I am not sure when I would ever be able to do that again. So we shall see what happens next year.
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Old Jul 30, 2020 | 12:45 pm
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After the rules changed last year, many of us were able to change our 2 stop, one POT into 2020 without losing a stop.
I'm approaching my new travel dates, there have been several sched changes and cancellations.
I would like to rebook into 2021, within current availability dates. The agent says I can only have one stop.
Anyone have better luck?
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Old Aug 16, 2020 | 7:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Goose12345
First post ... been lurking around these forums for a while and thanks to all the information, i have managed to book my first mRTW for next summer right before the rule change! Gonna post the itinerary below for inspirations...

YYZ - ORD - HND (stop) on AC J - NH F
NRT - PVG - SIN (destination) on NH J - SQ F
SIN - PVG (stop) on SQ F
SHA - HND - LAX- YYZ on NH J - NH F - AC J

215k AP + $650 cad in taxes , plus another $200 + HST for one round of change to incorporate the PVG<->SIN SQ F awards which appeared recently. May look into another change right before the trip to incorporate TG and/or LH F but happy as-is!
hey folks - so obv i had to have the above mRTW cancelled unfortunately After digesting the changes to the new aeroplan program, decided to book another thing before Nov 8 for late summer / early fall 2021 and just hope for the best. While taxes will be a lot lower in the new program and removal of MPM would open up some possibilities along with possibility of doing 2 stopovers, I'm sitting on enough miles that it makes sense to go now.... here's my idea if anyone looking for inspiration, the below checks out in MPM and all available looking at June 2021 calendar.

YYZ - LHR - AUH (layover); AC J - EY F
AUH - ICN (layover); EY F
ICN - SIN (desti); OZ J
SIN - BKK- PVG (layover); TG J - TG J
PVG - NRT (stop); NH J
NRT - SFO - YYZ; NH F - AC J

Unfortunately SQ availability has really dried up since I was last booking in summer of 2019. I was able to find PVG-SIN in SQ F which would've been sweet this time
All the layovers are really just trying to extract some value out of the itinerary but there are direct flights that'd skip them altogether which I might do to avoid extreme fatigue ... AUH - SIN in EY F (not a380 apt) and SIN- NRT in NH J
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Old Aug 17, 2020 | 6:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Goose12345
All the layovers are really just trying to extract some value out of the itinerary but there are direct flights that'd skip them altogether which I might do to avoid extreme fatigue ... AUH - SIN in EY F (not a380 apt) and SIN- NRT in NH J
Cross your fingers that EY actually brings their A380s back next year.
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