jamienbaker

Leaving from Manhattan, so no need.

That said, had heart palpitations driving family to JFK last week. Got an ECAM warning that we were out of coolant and should immediately stop the car. My first thought was that I had no chase car, so stopping would have proven catastrophic. I chose to ignore the ECAM and had the PNF (my wife) run some tests...lo and behold the ECAM cleared so we continued on. But my god, for a second there I could barely breathe.

Interestingly, JFK T1 now has a VIP ONE security entrance under the escalators to the food court, completely separate from Premium and Precheck security lanes, which JL F pax are welcome to use. I don't know what other T1 airlines participate.

Jamie

pushmyredbutton

Just some data-points:

Looking for JFK-HKG in F in January:
QF/BA both showed 3 different flights with F on a single day (no J on any); AS doesn't have see availability

Returning HKG-JFK:
1x flight with F showing, AS sees it and can book it.

I've learned to take the QF/BA tools for what they're worth: It helps you determine what days don't have availability, but those that do is a crapshoot.

907Joe

Hey, looking for some Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Partner Award expertise. I'm looking at trying to fly CX back from MNL in December in First. Unfortunately, there is no First award availability to LAX, SFO, and YVR over the dates I'm interested in. However, there is availability in First to BOS and JFK, although they are much farther away from my final destination (FAI). I'm wondering if Alaska Airlines' system would allow me to fly MNL-HKG-BOS/JFK-SEA-FAI. Thanks in advance

LieFlatorDeath

Another data point:

QF sees CX F availability mid September 2018 LHR-HKG. Call AS, they can't see it. Ended up booking with QF points.

downtheback.

Use JAL for CX award space. Matches 1 for 1 with AS. QF/BA shows phantom space.

pushmyredbutton

I don't think that's accurate. The date I'm looking for shows 3 CX F on JAL, but AS sees none of it. The same space also shows on QF/BA.

dkerr

Not entirely accurate. I think what the poster is running into is Point of Sale (POS). CX implements POS controls on their inventory... so what they make available for sale in one country is not the same as in another country. This seem to be especially the case for Europe to/from HKG awards. Most airlines use their home country as POS so for AS that would logically be the USA. And BA would logically use the UK. Now sometimes if you call a reservations center in another country they will use their location as POS, this generally works for revenue tickets but not always for awards which seem to default to home country of the airline.

JAL do take into account your location for awards. When you register for a JAL Mileage Bank account you do so in the region that you live. If you registered in the UK and try and login to the JAL website for Japan or USA it will tell you that you account is not valid in that region and switch you to your home region. When you search for awards on JAL website it does use the POS of the region you live in. I have two JAL Mileage Bank accounts, one registered in the USA and one in the UK. If I search for awards at JAL from e.g. LHR-HKG I will sometimes see different results... CX are making more award inventory available for sale in the UK for LHR/HKG flight than they are making available in the USA.

I believe that this is the main reason we see availability on BA/QF/JL that neither AS or AA are able to book.

DAK

pushmyredbutton

While you're definitely correct regarding POS availability, I'm not sure it correlates to what space AS can see. I also have two JAL accounts (one in USA, and one in Japan), and on my USA account I see loads of CX space that AS can't see. This should eliminate the POS issue, but everything I'm looking at shows that JL/QF/BA are equal for space, and AS is still some hidden subset.

dkerr

Yes, there must be something else going on. Seems to be a persistent problem.

DAK

Orwaid

Hi -

What is going on is OW saver availability vs non-OW saver availability.

nexusCFX

Does anyone have advice on booking a routing like YYZ-HKG-LHR in J/F (either mixed or all J since there's no F from YYZ)? The issue I'm trying to resolve is the fact that ideally I would book YYZ-HKG 330 days out right when it's made available, but if I'd like to spend two weeks in HKG, then the corresponding flight from HKG-LHR won't be made available for two more weeks. Is AS able to modify a booking from YYZ-HKG to be YYZ-HKG-LHR so long as there's HKG-LHR space, even if there may not be any more space left on YYZ-HKG? If not, what would be the best approach here?

Flying for Fun

It is TWO awards. Book your YYZ-HKG award now and then book HKG-LHR award when they become available for booking. There are no North America to Europe awards on CX.

James

eponymous_coward

Also, scroll back a bit, there are complaints that generally there's very little J/F to Europe on CX for USA point of sale (aka AS awards). I wouldn't count on HKG-LHR. If you can find HKG-Europe, take it and fly an LCC or blow a smallish amount of Avios for London.

lincoln boy

I was not able to find the answers by searching. Could anyone tell how to select CX seat for AS award redemption? I was able to go into my book management page and see the flights I am taking but seat selection is not available.

zzrayzz

you need to call alaska to book CX awards