AA LAX-HKG 777-300ER / 77W discussion, issues, etc.
Nov 18, 2019, 9:18 am
#1472
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: San Francisco
Programs: AA EXP; Marriott BonVoy Titanium Elite, Marriott LT Plat.
Posts: 1,718
Upgrade for HKG-LAX clear just past the T-24. Guess they didn't want any meal requests from me. LOL Got the seat I was eyeing after all 3 A. now I've been all of the mini cabin seats..
Nov 24, 2019, 7:28 pm
#1473
Join Date: May 2014
Programs: AAdvantage EXP
Posts: 152
First time I requested Mileage and CoPay upgrade. I request about 3M ago, approx 48 hours till wheels up, and according to EP approx J13. This is the 1st time I did Mileage and Copay, since in the past always used SWU's but this year I am only a Plat Pro.... I am not optimistic, a few days ago it was J30, so they must of sold or upgraded many people already... Crossing my fingers I got upgraded... Will update if I do or do not get upgraded.
Last edited by get0ffdanutzz; Nov 25, 2019 at 1:33 pm
Nov 25, 2019, 6:00 am
#1474
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: PHX
Programs: AA EXP, IHG PLT, IC Amb
Posts: 5,523
Nov 25, 2019, 8:26 pm
#1475
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: San Francisco
Programs: AA EXP; Marriott BonVoy Titanium Elite, Marriott LT Plat.
Posts: 1,718
get0ffdanutzz and 355F1 (sorry, I can never seem to get the "multi-quote" to work as intended)
Good luck to you both! I have to prepare to book yet another trip to HKG next month as I received marching orders today. Wish me luck as well!! Handed out several "Thank You" vouchers to/from HKG on last trip. FA's went above and beyond that were serving my aisles. They really appreciated it too.
Good luck to you both! I have to prepare to book yet another trip to HKG next month as I received marching orders today. Wish me luck as well!! Handed out several "Thank You" vouchers to/from HKG on last trip. FA's went above and beyond that were serving my aisles. They really appreciated it too.
Last edited by Zacnlinc; Nov 25, 2019 at 8:39 pm Reason: multi-quote not working
Nov 30, 2019, 10:33 am
#1477
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 155
As an experiment I set an alert for each day in one week for AA192 HKG-LAX "C" availability prior to my flight departure date. Only received the EF alert for one day out of seven which was T-48.
Nov 30, 2019, 11:28 am
#1478
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: San Francisco
Programs: AA EXP; Marriott BonVoy Titanium Elite, Marriott LT Plat.
Posts: 1,718
Nice experiment... I'm still believing in my own conspiracy theory as mentioned a few posts above.... AA working behind the scenes and only post C space processing upgrades... Hard to think that EF sweeps didn't catch C spaced but only once during you week long experiment.
Anyway.... Just starting to eye heading back to HKG myself within a couple weeks.
Nov 30, 2019, 7:15 pm
#1479
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2014
Programs: Top Tier with all 3 alliances
Posts: 11,731
I think a specific problem with EF is not that they don't necessarily detect the C space availability, but rather the email notifications don't work properly or fast enough. I have seen the C space several times come and go while I am logged into EF, but never got the actual email notification. So I see the actual C space appearing on EF, sometimes lasting from 15 minutes to several hours, but no email, or the email comes an hour late. So, the alerts are inadequate, you have to supplement with manual checks, IMO.
Nov 30, 2019, 8:43 pm
#1480
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: PHX
Programs: AA EXP, IHG PLT, IC Amb
Posts: 5,523
I think a specific problem with EF is not that they don't necessarily detect the C space availability, but rather the email notifications don't work properly or fast enough. I have seen the C space several times come and go while I am logged into EF, but never got the actual email notification. So I see the actual C space appearing on EF, sometimes lasting from 15 minutes to several hours, but no email, or the email comes an hour late. So, the alerts are inadequate, you have to supplement with manual checks, IMO.
Dec 1, 2019, 3:07 am
#1481
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Austin
Programs: AA EXP +2MM- LT PLT! HH Diamond
Posts: 6,091
I think a specific problem with EF is not that they don't necessarily detect the C space availability, but rather the email notifications don't work properly or fast enough. I have seen the C space several times come and go while I am logged into EF, but never got the actual email notification. So I see the actual C space appearing on EF, sometimes lasting from 15 minutes to several hours, but no email, or the email comes an hour late. So, the alerts are inadequate, you have to supplement with manual checks, IMO.
Dec 1, 2019, 7:23 am
#1482
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2014
Programs: Top Tier with all 3 alliances
Posts: 11,731
i think simply put, when EF is doing monitoring for "X" inventory per an account (generic X, not specifically that code), these queries are run on scheduled intervals in batch mode, not as continuous queries. Whereas when an account user logs in and does a query, it becomes a real time request and results are returned on the inventory as it is at that time. If some inventory becomes available between the scheduled queries and then is used, it will never show up for the monitored requests.
Dec 1, 2019, 10:56 am
#1484
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Austin
Programs: AA EXP +2MM- LT PLT! HH Diamond
Posts: 6,091
Unfortunately none regardless of status, class of service flown etc. CX used to have one, but it was closed, but it was reserved for CX business and F pax only even back then. Now it is closed.