No, it means that if your Partner award flight is in J and the connector flight to the gateway is in Main and E space never opens up, you aren't eligible for a complimentary status upgrade to First on the flight.

As for PC, that is a good question. If your status doesn't allow PC at booking, will you still be able to move into PC at your window? Will you be able to choose PC as a 75K+ at booking? That isn't clear. Perhaps I am jumping the gun on that one and it only applies to First upgrades.

For short West Coast flights, it may no be that big of a deal but if you are flying JFK-SFO-TYO, no status based complimentary upgrade eligibility on JFK-SFO is a bit of a bummer.

James

Hi All,

I also got one of the 80k J tickets on QF via AS.

Has anyone tried calling and getting AS to match to the 55k price? Thanks!

I'm extremely grateful to have my ticket and I hope that it holds. I'm not eager to have eyes on it. As a data point, the same ticket issued directly from QF is 1.2 million points. Seriously. Incredible.

uh.. Gift horse?! You got something that’s not supposed to be possible and you want a discount?!?

Was there a thread for Eva or Asiana? Went to the respective FF sub-forums and couldn't find anything about Eva or Asiana.

Appreciate your comment. That's what I was thinking too. Would love to know if anyone has success in getting points back though haha.

That would violate the cardinal FT rule, DO NOT CALL THE AIRLINE ABOUT A MISTAKE FARE. You're potential screwing not only yourself, but others who have benefitted.

They would not honor on JAL when they raised the JFK-HND

probably the words did not spread to Flyertalk.

EVA was short lived, Asiana lasted a day or two. I have enough miles but the Asiana J seems bit old and outdated hard product, so gave it a pass in the end.

In my opinion you'd be best off issuing that new ticket at the price that it shows and canceling the 80k booking.

Nothing of the sort with QF. Stopovers are allowed on eligible A/U/T fare when redeeming points. The 80k awards were none of the above.

Where are you seeing that stopovers are only allowed on the cheapest fare award classes? Makes no sense they'd only offer them on the cheaper ones. I am curious if anyone has gotten a stopover on QF to work anytime recently.

Like I said, BA is gone for sure. Except in LHR, for stays of less than two weeks. That's a big devaluation to me.

No problem at all booking stopovers both inbound and outbound in Oz as recently as last week. U overwater and mixed cabin domestic tags.

UA just implemented no notice devaluation on its own and partner redemptions. Not a good feeling when AS has some funkiness going on.

That's the entire point of abolishing award charts, innit? "We don't need to give you notices, there's no chart, the awards cost what they cost. Suck up and deal."

Yep, but you know how many people keep saying "Alaska would never do more no notice devaluations because they promised even though they keep doing it ..." haha. All these system "glitches" are likely just testing to implement full dynamic redemptions.