Definitive "Booking Japan Airlines (JL) Using AS Miles" Thread (2023-24)
Mar 31, 2023, 2:07 pm
#406
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Did you book it? I found similar but it errors out likely due to phantom space.
Mar 31, 2023, 5:26 pm
#407
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Mar 31, 2023, 9:50 pm
#408
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Apr 1, 2023, 3:26 pm
#410
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Apr 2, 2023, 10:53 am
#411
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How do I see meal selection on BKK-KIX and KIX-LAX? I'm in biz booked through AS but the JAL website cannot find my reservation. There is no place to enter my JL PNR or ticket#.
Apr 2, 2023, 11:44 am
#412
Join Date: Mar 2020
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Adding a JL segment to existing itinerary (end of booking window)
Thanks so much for all the info shared in this thread in regards to booking at the outer reaches of calendar availability.
Because of the married/divorced segment bug/issue described above, I was unable to book my complete one-way BKK-PDX itinerary when the AS availability window opened up. I could find each segment individually (both on BA and AS websites), but I couldn't book all segments married together as a single award redemption.
So I went ahead and booked the main HND-SFO trans-pacific segment as well as the connecting segment back to PDX, assuming that I could add BKK-HND within a few days after outside of the bug/issue window (which according to my testing is about 2 days).
It's only been 1 day but I just spoke with an agent (this is a Sunday at 10am) who told me that they CANNOT add a segment as described unless the ENTIRE end-to-end itinerary shows current availability. In other words, it doesn't matter than I'm already holding HND-SFO and SFO-PDX, she's saying there would need to be additional availability on those segments as well in order to book BKK-HND.
Does anybody know if this is true? It doesn't sound right. I'm guessing/hoping I just need another day or two to get out of the bug window...but still, what she told me was concerning. Any thoughts?
Thanks again for all the detailed info shared here.
Because of the married/divorced segment bug/issue described above, I was unable to book my complete one-way BKK-PDX itinerary when the AS availability window opened up. I could find each segment individually (both on BA and AS websites), but I couldn't book all segments married together as a single award redemption.
So I went ahead and booked the main HND-SFO trans-pacific segment as well as the connecting segment back to PDX, assuming that I could add BKK-HND within a few days after outside of the bug/issue window (which according to my testing is about 2 days).
It's only been 1 day but I just spoke with an agent (this is a Sunday at 10am) who told me that they CANNOT add a segment as described unless the ENTIRE end-to-end itinerary shows current availability. In other words, it doesn't matter than I'm already holding HND-SFO and SFO-PDX, she's saying there would need to be additional availability on those segments as well in order to book BKK-HND.
Does anybody know if this is true? It doesn't sound right. I'm guessing/hoping I just need another day or two to get out of the bug window...but still, what she told me was concerning. Any thoughts?
Thanks again for all the detailed info shared here.
Apr 2, 2023, 9:08 pm
#413
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on the JL site find manage my booking. Then you should be able to enter the pnr and choose seat and meals - if you can't do that there might be a problem with your ticket.
Apr 3, 2023, 1:23 pm
#414
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Last Minute JL F Award SFO/JFK to HND
If anyone is interested JAL just released F award space on 7 APR from SFO or JFK to HND (85K and 100K respectively).
Just sayin...
Cheers,
-Cyborg
Just sayin...
Cheers,
-Cyborg
Apr 4, 2023, 5:48 am
#416
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Apr 4, 2023, 8:46 am
#417
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Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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This is an interesting question where the outcome might be on a case by case basis. A quick search found SFO-NRT-SIN in J for 100K on 5 and 6 April (tomorrow and the day after). The SFO-NRT J leg can be got for 60K. It will be cheaper, and surely fewer headaches, to just book a separate ticket to HND.
Apr 4, 2023, 10:51 am
#418
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AS seems to have gone off the rails and is charging 100k in JL J US-SIN, maybe to match SQ? The short side of the story is, if AS is really charging so much more for new pricing on that route you might be better off to just keep your existing HND-SIN and book a new SFO-HND in J or F to connect to it (or get a stopover in TYO). I did not find an example of an F fare to SIN so I cannot say what that pricing is but BKK-US is 100k in F so it would be a minimum of that, but since J is already 100k to SIN I have got to imagine F is more.
Apr 4, 2023, 1:16 pm
#419
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You paid 25k. Your ticket is worth 25k. If you cancel you will get 25k refunded. If you change (like add SFO-HND), the 25k you have already paid is applied to the new ticket. So, if you rebook to add SFO-HND the new itinerary will be priced at the new rate with a 25k credit for what you have already paid.
AS seems to have gone off the rails and is charging 100k in JL J US-SIN, maybe to match SQ? The short side of the story is, if AS is really charging so much more for new pricing on that route you might be better off to just keep your existing HND-SIN and book a new SFO-HND in J or F to connect to it (or get a stopover in TYO). I did not find an example of an F fare to SIN so I cannot say what that pricing is but BKK-US is 100k in F so it would be a minimum of that, but since J is already 100k to SIN I have got to imagine F is more.
AS seems to have gone off the rails and is charging 100k in JL J US-SIN, maybe to match SQ? The short side of the story is, if AS is really charging so much more for new pricing on that route you might be better off to just keep your existing HND-SIN and book a new SFO-HND in J or F to connect to it (or get a stopover in TYO). I did not find an example of an F fare to SIN so I cannot say what that pricing is but BKK-US is 100k in F so it would be a minimum of that, but since J is already 100k to SIN I have got to imagine F is more.
Apr 4, 2023, 2:37 pm
#420
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I found my reservation by Not logging in. Evidently, the reservation is not linked to my JAL profile. Anyway, I'm not picking a special meal on the BKk-KIX leg and requested the beef out of KIX.