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Old Aug 15, 2016, 1:57 am
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Any word on when JL award travel begins with Mileage Plan miles?
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Anyone have any info?
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Old Aug 15, 2016, 1:50 pm
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Originally Posted by Orwaid
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Anyone have any info?
I would also be interested to get an answer to this. My expectation is that no one will know until AS publishes it on their website however. Hope they allow Japan-EU as well as Japan-US
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Old Aug 15, 2016, 2:13 pm
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There are a lot of people waiting for this, get in line

It's being discussed here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alask...s-partner.html
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Old Aug 21, 2016, 7:52 pm
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It is going to be a disaster. Ever since the AA crowd locked up CX, there are no longer decent USA-Asia J awards to be had. The moment JL opens up to AS, everyone and their mommy will dive onto it with their churned AS mileage balances and wipe out alll award inventory in 24 hours.
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Old Aug 21, 2016, 8:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
It is going to be a disaster. Ever since the AA crowd locked up CX, there are no longer decent USA-Asia J awards to be had. The moment JL opens up to AS, everyone and their mommy will dive onto it with their churned AS mileage balances and wipe out alll award inventory in 24 hours.
Hmm. Apocalyptic but accurate, in my opinion.
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Old Aug 21, 2016, 9:26 pm
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Originally Posted by felixmendelssohn
Apocalyptic but accurate
You're half-right.
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Old Aug 21, 2016, 9:44 pm
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Hi -

I agree that US-Asia F awards on CX have gotten a little harder to find, but their J awards can still be had -- you just have to basically go stand-by over any given week - as well as avoid the major asian and US holiday periods.
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 12:15 am
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
It is going to be a disaster. Ever since the AA crowd locked up CX, there are no longer decent USA-Asia J awards to be had. The moment JL opens up to AS, everyone and their mommy will dive onto it with their churned AS mileage balances and wipe out alll award inventory in 24 hours.
Uh, AA has had access to JL for years. And there are a LOT more AA miles sloshing around than AS ones (recall: you could actually get lifetime Platinum on AA via cc spend for a long time). So maybe calm down a bit?
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 6:18 am
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
And there are a LOT more AA miles sloshing around than AS ones
Not sure that is true, considering that bloggers continue to harp on the "ease of churning BofA Alaska Airlines Visa".
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 9:19 am
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
Not sure that is true, considering that bloggers continue to harp on the "ease of churning BofA Alaska Airlines Visa".
AA is a much bigger airline. AA has TWO credit card companies (Barclay's and Citibank). AA is even more aggressive about selling miles. Bloggers plug Citi links more aggressively than BofA.

But whatever floats your boat. The sky is falling.
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 9:24 am
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
AA is a much bigger airline. AA has TWO credit card companies (Barclay's and Citibank). AA is even more aggressive about selling miles. Bloggers plug Citi links more aggressively than BofA.
All those AA miles chase the same CX and JL awards AS does
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 10:20 am
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All those AA miles chase the same CX and JL awards AS does
Which is precisely his point.
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 10:28 am
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Originally Posted by jinglish
Which is precisely his point.
So he is salivating at the thought of even less awards available to Mileageplan members?
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 10:51 am
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So he is salivating at the thought of even less awards available to Mileageplan members?
No, I'm pointing out that it's unlikely that adding a smaller partner is going to make things much worse if the larger partners don't suck out all the award availability.

This will also reduce demand on AS DL/CX/KE/AA awards to Japan, to boot. (I picked some random dates in Feburary using the AS calendar. Loads of awards. Yes, it's low season, but come on, do you expect a ton of availability to award destinations when people are willing to pay for tickets there?)

FWIW, JL J availability out of YVR/SAN is pretty good, the catch being that the J product is pretty bad (recliners).
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Old Aug 22, 2016, 10:56 am
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
FWIW, JL J availability out of YVR/SAN is pretty good, the catch being that the J product is pretty bad (recliners).
The 787 v1?
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