ANA waitlisted awards?
Sep 26, 2021, 1:10 pm
#1
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ANA waitlisted awards?
If I book a waitlisted award, I need to already have the miles in my account correct? If the waitlist clears does ANA automatically ticket it, or do they verify with the customer first? Also is there a time frame that waitlist awards clear or do not clear?
Sep 26, 2021, 9:53 pm
#2
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Waitlisted rewards are automatically ticketed. I think there is automatic cancellation, a week or so before the flight. I don’t remember the actual duration.
Sep 26, 2021, 10:00 pm
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Oct 2, 2021, 12:41 pm
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Do you mean by this that they are initially ticketed as if they are confirmed in Business Class, and then the passenger needs to wait until a week or so before the flight to find out whether this is taken away?
Oct 2, 2021, 12:46 pm
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Oct 2, 2021, 1:27 pm
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Thanks for clarifying that!
Also, just another point to consider is that waitlists are prioritised also by status (not sure if this is noted anywhere, but anecdotally I have gotten off the waitlist as an ANA Diamond over friends that waitlisted the same award flight weeks earlier than me with lower status).
Also, just another point to consider is that waitlists are prioritised also by status (not sure if this is noted anywhere, but anecdotally I have gotten off the waitlist as an ANA Diamond over friends that waitlisted the same award flight weeks earlier than me with lower status).
Oct 4, 2021, 7:04 am
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I've seen one booking already confirmed for SFO-NRT in this way, and a second booking showed this possible on Monday, but by the time I'd moved MR over to make the booking, it was back to "waitlist only".
No apparent rhyme or reason to which ones are confirmable or not.
Nov 24, 2021, 9:01 am
#10
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The reason I ask is that I'm seeing an ongoing but inconsistent issue where the search engine will show an ANA-metal flight as "waitlisted", but then a phone agent will list the flight as being immediately confirmable.
I've seen one booking already confirmed for SFO-NRT in this way, and a second booking showed this possible on Monday, but by the time I'd moved MR over to make the booking, it was back to "waitlist only".
No apparent rhyme or reason to which ones are confirmable or not.
I've seen one booking already confirmed for SFO-NRT in this way, and a second booking showed this possible on Monday, but by the time I'd moved MR over to make the booking, it was back to "waitlist only".
No apparent rhyme or reason to which ones are confirmable or not.
Feb 18, 2022, 11:59 am
#12
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I'm going to waitlist a seat to HND and have a confirmed ticket onward on NH from HND. So two separate tickets.
Thoughts about calling NH and asking them to open a seat on the first flight because it's the only way I can take the second flight?
I don't know if they send it over to revenue management like some other airlines or it's just a flat no.
Thoughts about calling NH and asking them to open a seat on the first flight because it's the only way I can take the second flight?
I don't know if they send it over to revenue management like some other airlines or it's just a flat no.
Feb 18, 2022, 7:07 pm
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I'm going to waitlist a seat to HND and have a confirmed ticket onward on NH from HND. So two separate tickets.
Thoughts about calling NH and asking them to open a seat on the first flight because it's the only way I can take the second flight?
I don't know if they send it over to revenue management like some other airlines or it's just a flat no.
Thoughts about calling NH and asking them to open a seat on the first flight because it's the only way I can take the second flight?
I don't know if they send it over to revenue management like some other airlines or it's just a flat no.
But what's the worst that can happen, the hold time I guess....
Feb 20, 2022, 10:26 am
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J/C/D/Z/P = 9
There's 5/40 seats assigned in J.