dect002

Hey, sorry to hear about the changes in your flight. My flight also got affected, I'm leaving LAX on the end of Oct and was also downgraded due to a equipment change. While calling in to the partner's desk, I was advised not to ask for the refund of miles as once they refund the miles, means I have accepted the change and case close. What the staff advised is that to keep the booking as it is and pray that they change back to the 777 and they can put me back on F without the points difference, until 2 days before departure, if there's still no change in aircraft, call in and ask for the miles refund.
Interesting fact, SFO is still being served by 777 at the end of OCT and when i asked them to see if they can placed me on the flight departing from SFO, he told me that there's a 200 miles rule to change? Does anybody know of this?
Thank you!

planyi

Along with the no knock devaluation this week, has anyone experienced this? I looked for one way JAL in biz using AS points from lax to Tyo from June to December and found ONE seat in that time span. Was it operator error or did AS/JAL strip out all the future awards?

PDXPremier

The window for booking that time period when the schedule opened has long passed....there should be some availability opening up at T-14.

olouie

Also try award calendar or use AA/BA to verify. The one way search is often broken.

Smiley90

Neither - a lot of people want to go to Japan and booked those flights when they were released last year.

nsx

I didn't realize how fortunate I was in March 2022 to have wide open business class availability from SFO to NRT to BKK and back. Literally every flight was available because Japan was closed to non-transiting foreigners.

skimthetrees

A poster in the AA forum claims 3 for 3 in getting ORD changed to JFK in F. Call the partner desk and ask them to contact the JAL liaison and request them to swap to JFK in F on the basis that JAL canceled the F service to ORD. If it works for AA it should work for AS, because it's JAL who has to approve it, not AS.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...l#post35071103

christianwu

I was able to book a last minute JAL first class award ticket from JFK to HND. However I could not select seats from the JAL website. It seems like they are not allowing seat selection for tickets booked with partner airlines. Has anyone experienced this before? I'm worried they might have oversold.

olouie

It still works. You might just have to call in.

estnet

did you use the JAL pnr not the AS one? I was able to select seat for a last minute booking in last few weeks

SpammersAreScum

I booked using AS miles, and just today used the JL PNR and picked my seats with no problems. To my surprise my AS # was not attached so I was able to add my BA # (where I'm OWE); I don't think that would've made a difference in seat selection, though.

jakezim

Out of curiosity, were you using the JAL mobile site or desktop version when you did this? I�m in a similar boat (booked through AS, pretty sure that number is not attached, and would like to add my AA #) but can�t seem to make it happen on my iPhone, it only wants to accept a JL FF#.

SpammersAreScum

Desktop. Pull-down menu gave me all the airline options you'd expect.

nealaws

Happened to me before. You need to call JAL to add your FF#.

allset2travel

Congrats for your last minute F booking. Was it for 1 pax or 2?
How many award miles did u pay?
Thanks