AS Award Travel
Dec 7, 2018, 12:52 pm
#1
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AS Award Travel
I am searching for award travel to Europe in June and July from PDX - I know its high season BUT and I pretty much only see Iceland Air, with the occasional BA sprinkled in with their outrageous taxes.. I never see Condor and never AA - am I missing something in my searching?
Dec 7, 2018, 1:22 pm
#2
Join Date: Aug 2018
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I tried looking for the same thing recently. When I was looking at mid-July PDX-LON availability, I could occasionally find midweek Alaska/AA flights in coach, however, all J/F award space was mixed cabin with the transatlantic segment always in coach.
Dec 7, 2018, 1:22 pm
#3
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AS doesn't control partner inventory. AS can't show you partner award inventory that doesn't exist. Here's a link to a multi-year discussion on the AA forum about this problem.
MileSAAver / SAAver award reduction / scarcity discussion
MileSAAver / SAAver award reduction / scarcity discussion
Dec 7, 2018, 1:50 pm
#6
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Dec 7, 2018, 1:59 pm
#7
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Have you tried looking for availability from the gateway cities only? You might be on your own to get to the gateway, but if you look at availability from SFO / LAX / SEA and so on, you might find a lot more without the domestic tags.
Dec 7, 2018, 2:19 pm
#9
Join Date: Apr 2017
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Its been rough for me in my search. Looking for tickets back from CDG to PDX in July. Presently 45k OW on Iceland and with a $200 charge. So I am opting to wait for cash fares to change after the new year.
Dec 7, 2018, 2:29 pm
#10
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I see Condor in searches all the time - in PE. Are you looking for J? PDX is pretty barren on Condor J. SEA is better.
I see J a bit via SEA. Here's a couple of dates I pulled out of the hat:
PDX-SEA-KEF-FRA 6/12 Iceland Air
PDX-SEA-FRA 6/30, 7/5 Condor
I see J a bit via SEA. Here's a couple of dates I pulled out of the hat:
PDX-SEA-KEF-FRA 6/12 Iceland Air
PDX-SEA-FRA 6/30, 7/5 Condor
Dec 7, 2018, 2:46 pm
#11
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hah funny. I'm @ CDG in late May and I've been investigating the same. Being stubborn/ambitious though and considering lots of different routing/gateways. My fallback will be getting over to FRA and taking DE to YVR.
Dec 7, 2018, 5:52 pm
#13
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PDX does have a non-stop Condor flight to FRA but only one. SEA has the Condor flight plus a non-stop LH 747, so a lot more capacity from SEA (AS cannot book LH but others can).
Dec 8, 2018, 7:17 am
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TATL peaks in summer. SEA/PDX peak in summer.
Replacing DL/AF/KL with Finnair, Condor, and Icelandair wasn't exactly an even trade for AS redemptions.
Replacing DL/AF/KL with Finnair, Condor, and Icelandair wasn't exactly an even trade for AS redemptions.