h8stn4d

Has anyone looked at the relationship, if any, between AsiaMiles award availability and release of seats to partners, especially given the dearth of F/J seats post-NYE?

I'm looking to fly in about 10 days and AsiaMiles has 3 J award seats but there's nothing for partners (BA/QF). The EF seating chart shows about 20+ open seats, so there seems to be plenty of availability.

If there are AsiaMiles awards now, are those likely to move to BA/QF, or is the 2019 Cathay F/J stinginess impacting only QF/BA but not AsiaMiles?

tobikosan

CX has maybe a dozen flights a day HKG to TPE, not including Dragon. Is there a reason nothing comes on looking for awards in any class on AS? I've never booked AS intra asia flights can someone point me to a helpful thread? I'm looking for a one way on Dec 10 Thank you

DrAlex

QF shows much availability in Y and J on Dec 10 - you are searching with BA or QF and not AS, right?

SilverChris

If you're searching using the AS website, you're doing it wrong. You have to call for CX awards.

If you called and the agent can't find any seats on any flight, HUACA

VegasGambler

To save your sanity I highly recommend using BA or Qantas websites to search for the CX space before calling. Then just feed them flight numbers. And don't forget the "hour = 1" trick for flights departing between 00:00 and 01:00

pinniped

Is it unusual to see zero availability on intra-Asia flights right at T-330? I'm finding decent SEA-HKG and occasional LAX-HKG or even east coast-HKG, but then nothing beyond HKG.

Looking for J. Just trying to get simple things like BKK or SIN. Expected that to be the easy part...

tobikosan

I'm looking on QF for HKG to TPE on Dec 10 and have zero cathay non stops. Wonder what I'm doing wrong?

Now on BA found lots of J and some PE but no economy. Weird

pinniped

Is there any consensus on whether searching BA vs QF leads to more accurate representation of what AS agents can actually see and book?

I always search QF out of habit.

skimthetrees

A few have said JL yields the closest results to AS availability. I usually start with QF because their calendar search is usually more helpful and BA does not always accurately reflect results if more than one segment are involved in the journey. BA will show a J award on a connecting trip even if one segment is Y. QF will show a mixed J/Y award as mixed and let you see which segments are in which class. BA is good for one segment availability around a specific date since it will show the number of seats available, but for connecting journeys it is better to use QF (or maybe JL or CX).

I have noticed some inconsistencies in the QF vs BA results since CX did a system upgrade a couple of days ago. I have not investigated sufficiently to tell if QF or BA is off.

pinniped

I noticed something weird on the QF website.

When I search SEA-HKG, it shows me a connection at ORD, with the ORD-HKG flight on CX available in J.
When I search ORD-HKG, it shows me a connection at SEA, with the SEA-HKG flight on CX available in J.
Neither search shows the existence of a nonstop flight.

Perhaps not an issue for AS - when I search BA, the Seattle flight shows 6 PE and 4 J, for example. Perhaps a QF glitch?

Also, I can't find the calendar view on QF. It's just a day-by-day search.

minz56

I am also finding inconsistencies between QF and BA at the moment with (for example) BA showing J4 and QF showing nothing. I don't know what AS shows as I haven't called them.

Regarding the calendar view on QF: when you select the Depart date the calendar will open an at the top left there is a check box marked "Flexible with dates". You need to check this box to see the calendar view. Once you have checked this box it will stay that way until you un-check it.

Mauibaby2008

eponymous_coward

donnyb

I see availability on QF for a RT award, the return segment is over 330 days out still.
Do I have to wait till 330 days to call AK or can I call them with the specifics now?

CDKing

No even on one way you cannot book outside the window on a connecting segment. Second if its not on the AS site you wont be able to book it. QF booking window is much shorter for some reason so you probably wont even be able to book a one way award