anteater

As of a few days ago he was alive and well.

pcoll

James, you are missed !

Finkface

He is most definitely alive and well! I was with him most of last week.

spgaston

My partner award on BA has been messed up due to cancellation of connecting flight LHR-BER. Will AS "open up" seats to reaccommodate us from SFO/SJC to domestic gateway (SEA/PDX) so we can take FI PDX/SEA-KEF-BER instead? Right now the AS domestic segments are not available (there are some bad options with overnight layover in SEA/PDX).

EmailKid

Then he may be docked his Moderator pay for not moderating

Oh, wait, we are volunteer moderators without salary ....

Er, nevermind .....

WillTravel4Food

FI is no BA. Unfortunately AS has limited sway in getting partner airlines to open space. I'd look at other options from LHR. Maybe they have a later flight? If not, consider Hamburg or Hannover. The trains are so reliable in Germany, I never really try to get into any airport other than FRA when booking awards, because AS flies out of there. Then from there I take the train. The ICE trains are fast and might actually save time versus crazy routings/ long layovers.

PDXpress

Unfortunately no. You need to either both be cash or both be miles to be on the same reservation, which you have to be for him to be your MVPG companion for upgrade purposes. You can "link" reservations, but it doesn't do anything for upgrades.

LAX21

I'm planning a LAX-PVR trip in November on AS. I haven't checked other routes for availability to compare, however this route seems odd to me availability-wise. I've checked EF from now till May 2022 and there is not a single day where even one E or U seat is open! Almost 1 year w/o any open seats - is this a RM error or is it SOP now for AS flights?

pcoll

Unfortunately, this is now normal for AS. U has been very elusive for over almost 2 years. Many with GGU’s frustrated. Make travel plans accordingly. Sorry.

simonsuo

Do you guys have any suggestions on Labor day booking? I have been tracking the prices since last month, they fluctuate but mostly still go up. Will the new lower fare released the next month in July? I am not expecting things will be cheaper in August though.

chrisl137

I'll be surprised if there are cheap labor day fares coming up unless something happens like the Delta variant leading to hard shutdowns (I suspect low probability). Airlines aren't back up to full capacity yet and there's a lot of pent up demand for leisure travel. The airlines are going to exploit that to collect as much $$$ as they can to make up for the pain of the past 15 months.

dayone

Agreed. AS and the other airlines are making hay while the sun shines.

mtofell

I'm trying to cancel a ticket and just keep getting error message on both the app and full website. Is anyone else having trouble? It's been about 18 hours and I just keep getting a message that says:

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Error encountered

We are unable to complete your transaction at this time. Please try again.

If this problem continues please call Customer care at 1-800-654-5669, Monday-Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. (PT).

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The only thing a bit different with this ticket is it's for someone other than me. As in, I'm not on the reservation at all but made it and paid for it. Does that change something so I can't just click and cancel? It seems like if that were the case they could just say that in the error message but maybe I'm expecting too much logic from Alaska IT.

Finkface

Have there been a lot of changes to the ticket? If the ticket has been “touched” too many times, it seems you can’t do any more changes online and have to call in. Not sure what that number is but I have been told that by agents and it is consistent with my experience.

imaflyertalkuserwow

I’ve had that problem before. When it happened, it was on flights that had previous changes where I was forced to call into an agent to confirm the changes.