andrzej

I stumbled onto this page by accident and maybe it was posted here before, but I thought it needed a notice.

Japan Airlines, Japan Asia Airways and JALways
Between Japan and North America (Excluding Hawaii) 2006 2007
Flights to Japan May 5-6 May 4, 5
Flights from Japan April 29, 30 None
Between Japan and Europe 2006 2007
Flights to Japan May 5-6
August 19 May 4-5
September 22-23
Flights from Japan April 29-30
August 12
April 28-29
September 15
Between Japan and Hawaii: 2006 2007
Flights to Japan January 2-3
May 5-6
August 15 January 2-3
May 5
August 16
Flights from Japan April 28
December 28, 29 April 27-28
December 28-29
Within Japan: 2006 2007
Flights to Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo January 2-4
May 5-7
August 15-20 January 2-4
May 4-6
August 15-19
Flights from Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo April 28-30
May 3-4
August 9-14
December 29-31 April 28-29
May 3-4
August 10-14
December 28-31
Between Japan and China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore: 2006 2007
Flights to Japan January 3
May 6-7 January 2-3
May 5-6
Flights from Japan None None
Between Japan and China 2006 2007
Flights to Japan None January 3
Flights from Japan None None
Between Japan and Guam 2006 2007
Flights to Japan January 2-3
May 6-7 January 2-3
May 5-6
Flights from Japan May 3
December 29-30 May 3
December 29-30
Between Japan and South Korea 2006 2007
Flights to Japan None None
Flights from Japan None None
Between Japan and Australia, New Zealand 2006 2007
Flights to Japan January 2-3
May 6-7
August 19-20 January 2-4
May 6
Flights from Japan April 29-30
August 12
December 28-31 April 28
May 3
August 11
December 27-28


Qantas
Travel Embargo dates for First and Business Class awards for travel on: 2006
Flight QF11 from Sydney to Los Angeles and Flight QF12 from Los Angeles to Sydney All year
Travel Embargo dates for First and Business Class awards for travel on: 2007
Flight QF11 from Sydney to Los Angeles and Flight QF12 from Los Angeles to Sydney All year

http://www.aa.com/content/urls/embargodates.jhtml

jkc22

The QF exception has been there for ages.....never really paid attention to the JL ones....

To work around these embargo dates, of course, we usually do a oneworld award....

WRCSolberg

That's very interesting considering I booked a J award on QF 11 and 12 for May-June 2007.

sdsearch

Great, but what does it actually mean? What is the exact definiton of an embargo date?

I mean, for example, a date could conceivably be emargoed only for certain types of awards and not others, but I know of no place (certainly not this page, and certainly not for example the JAL or Qantas pages which link to this page) that explains what an embargo precisely means. There's only a vague statement (right before each link) about "Using AAdvantage miles for airline award travel is subject to capacity controls." But we all know that capacity controls can work differently for different specific awards (for example, for a given date, not involving embargos, there may be economy award seats but no business award seats, or vice versa).

And right above my post is one from WRCSolberg who booked a QF award (in J) on an embargo date! So was that an embargo date only for Y awards??

andrzej

I don't know what it means to you, but when it says : 2006/07 all QF 11/12 flights are off the table for F and J award tickets, that pretty much sums it up for me....

It's nice to hear that there is a loophole available as per WRCSolberg's post, but I would not count on it.

There is a reason AA put up that page.......

jkc22

This thread discussed the embargo dates, but not sure about the current status......

http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthrea...highlight=QF11