Definitive "Booking Japan Airlines (JL) Using AS Miles" Thread (2023-24)
Mar 26, 2024, 8:07 am
#931
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Cape Town, WC
Programs: AF LTP, LH Sen, M Amb
Posts: 400
Noticed a bunch of routings were updated to new pricing overnight, precisely MH and QR flights. Under 1500 miles flights are available at 15,000 miles in business (DPS-KUL, DOH-CAI). Maybe would be useful for someone. At the same time connecting flights are not pricing correctly, MH DPS-KUL-SIN is priced at 50,000 miles in business despite being 1420 miles.
CX intra Asia is still priced 12,500 miles in economy. Business is still blocked.
Besides this first zone under 1500 miles everything else is priced crazy and totally uncompetitive (the next tier 1501-3000 is priced at 50,000 miles! when I checked a few routes that was like twice more expensive than other programs offers).
It's really sad how they trashed AS MP into nothing. Between loosing most of valuable partners, crazy pricing, blocked availability on Cathay I've been struggling to spend my miles since 2018 (that I stupidly credited to AS :facepalm
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CX intra Asia is still priced 12,500 miles in economy. Business is still blocked.
Besides this first zone under 1500 miles everything else is priced crazy and totally uncompetitive (the next tier 1501-3000 is priced at 50,000 miles! when I checked a few routes that was like twice more expensive than other programs offers).
It's really sad how they trashed AS MP into nothing. Between loosing most of valuable partners, crazy pricing, blocked availability on Cathay I've been struggling to spend my miles since 2018 (that I stupidly credited to AS :facepalm
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Mar 26, 2024, 9:55 am
#932
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: SJC / DPS
Programs: AS G75K, UA Silver
Posts: 1,757
Noticed a bunch of routings were updated to new pricing overnight, precisely MH and QR flights. Under 1500 miles flights are available at 15,000 miles in business (DPS-KUL, DOH-CAI). Maybe would be useful for someone. At the same time connecting flights are not pricing correctly, MH DPS-KUL-SIN is priced at 50,000 miles in business despite being 1420 miles.
CX intra Asia is still priced 12,500 miles in economy. Business is still blocked.
Besides this first zone under 1500 miles everything else is priced crazy and totally uncompetitive (the next tier 1501-3000 is priced at 50,000 miles! when I checked a few routes that was like twice more expensive than other programs offers).
It's really sad how they trashed AS MP into nothing. Between loosing most of valuable partners, crazy pricing, blocked availability on Cathay I've been struggling to spend my miles since 2018 (that I stupidly credited to AS :facepalm.
CX intra Asia is still priced 12,500 miles in economy. Business is still blocked.
Besides this first zone under 1500 miles everything else is priced crazy and totally uncompetitive (the next tier 1501-3000 is priced at 50,000 miles! when I checked a few routes that was like twice more expensive than other programs offers).
It's really sad how they trashed AS MP into nothing. Between loosing most of valuable partners, crazy pricing, blocked availability on Cathay I've been struggling to spend my miles since 2018 (that I stupidly credited to AS :facepalm
.
Mar 26, 2024, 11:33 am
#933
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 14
Booked BOS-NRT for 80k miles months ago.
I was trying to add a NRT-NGO leg hoping it may reprice the ticket at 75k miles under the new award chart.
But agent told me there has to be availability in J for BOS-NRT leg so that they can reprice the ticket..
Update: Another agent was able to add the NRT-NGO leg, and refunded 5k miles
I was trying to add a NRT-NGO leg hoping it may reprice the ticket at 75k miles under the new award chart.
But agent told me there has to be availability in J for BOS-NRT leg so that they can reprice the ticket..
Update: Another agent was able to add the NRT-NGO leg, and refunded 5k miles
Last edited by louloufafa; Mar 27, 2024 at 8:44 am
Mar 27, 2024, 12:23 pm
#935
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: bay area, ca
Programs: UA plat, , aa plat, marriott LT titanium
Posts: 4,833
Yes - if you look at the mileage chart many of the routes are just over by 115-400 miles putting trips into the next bracket. sfo-tyo, sfo-bkk, tyo-bkk, etc Not my favorite program anymore 
Mar 27, 2024, 1:52 pm
#937
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 37
Has anyone been able to reprice award bookings that went down? I have a few 80k NYC - TYO bookings that are now in theory 75k but not available.
Also I noticed that AS now has a lot more availability than AA. Seeing 9+ on many flights from jfk - hnd in April
Also I noticed that AS now has a lot more availability than AA. Seeing 9+ on many flights from jfk - hnd in April
Mar 28, 2024, 12:50 am
#938
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Cape Town, WC
Programs: AF LTP, LH Sen, M Amb
Posts: 400
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Mar 29, 2024, 4:14 pm
#939
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 58
Looks like a block of J award space was just dropped between Tokyo and Seattle. 13 days in April have J availability NRT-SEA right now at 60k, and about the same going the other direction. Many days have 5+ seats. Haven't seen JAL this wide-open from SEA in awhile.
Mar 29, 2024, 4:32 pm
#940
Join Date: Jan 2021
Programs: Hyatt Globalist (Full), Marriott Titanium, IHG Spire, Wyndham DIA, Hilton Gold, AA EXP
Posts: 700
Did they change the award chart? Distance between 3,001 and 5,000 miles shows 60k in business class.
Mar 29, 2024, 6:57 pm
#941
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 58
Yes, that's still the "Starting at" price on the new chart. I just called it out since so many other airlines are pricing above the chart, and the most notable part was all the availability!
Apr 10, 2024, 4:08 pm
#942
Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 984
OK so I am running into a problem. I should be able to book a multi-city routing from HNL-Tokyo (all airports)-Taipei (all airports) with the expectation that there is pretty much a free stopover in Tokyo on JAL right? However when I try to do that, I get an error that there are zero flights available. However, when I do a separate HNL-Tokyo booking for 04/15/2024, I get plenty of JAL availability, specifically one that I like is HNL-HND, Flt. 71 that includes Premium availability which I will happily pay for. Then I did a separate 04/17/2024 booking from Tokyo to Taipei, thinking the reason for the error was because there were no JAL award flights available, however, I found Flt. 809 for 7.5K miles.
So why can't I book the exact same two separate legs doing a multi-city booking of HNL-Tokyo, then Tokyo-Taipei and thus supposedly save myself 7500 miles? Can I call Alaska for them to do it for me manually since it shows up as two available legs on their search engine? Or does the stop-over in Tokyo anymore because everything is distance based?
So why can't I book the exact same two separate legs doing a multi-city booking of HNL-Tokyo, then Tokyo-Taipei and thus supposedly save myself 7500 miles? Can I call Alaska for them to do it for me manually since it shows up as two available legs on their search engine? Or does the stop-over in Tokyo anymore because everything is distance based?
Apr 12, 2024, 3:02 pm
#943
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 117
Hi All. Is it possible to do a mixed cabin award fare with a stopover? I don't think the online multi city tool allows this but can agents do it over the phone? Example LAX-HND-BKK (LAX-HND in Premium Economy on 05/01 & HND-BKK In Business on 05/05)?
I found availability for each segment I just don't know if it's possible.
I found availability for each segment I just don't know if it's possible.
