ARCHIVE: AA Awards on Cathay Pacific (2015)
Aug 1, 2015, 2:34 pm
#1501
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Programs: AA Gold
Posts: 3,649
status of CX 881 on Feb. 11, 2016?
I have one F and one J AA award ticketed on CX 881 LAX-HKG for Feb. 11. I booked them at 330 days out. I have checked religiously almost every single day for the second F seat and there has never been a second one released. I have the miles for the second F seat for my husband. Are the odds of another one being released good? I picked this time frame to travel in as not being high season.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
Aug 1, 2015, 2:49 pm
#1502
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: AA Platinum, Marriott Platinum, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 136
I have one F and one J AA award ticketed on CX 881 LAX-HKG for Feb. 11. I booked them at 330 days out. I have checked religiously almost every single day for the second F seat and there has never been a second one released. I have the miles for the second F seat for my husband. Are the odds of another one being released good? I picked this time frame to travel in as not being high season.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
Aug 1, 2015, 3:37 pm
#1503
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
I have one F and one J AA award ticketed on CX 881 LAX-HKG for Feb. 11. I booked them at 330 days out. I have checked religiously almost every single day for the second F seat and there has never been a second one released. I have the miles for the second F seat for my husband. Are the odds of another one being released good? I picked this time frame to travel in as not being high season.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
Aug 1, 2015, 4:55 pm
#1504
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: MPC,CA,MU,AF
Posts: 8,171
I have one F and one J AA award ticketed on CX 881 LAX-HKG for Feb. 11. I booked them at 330 days out. I have checked religiously almost every single day for the second F seat and there has never been a second one released. I have the miles for the second F seat for my husband. Are the odds of another one being released good? I picked this time frame to travel in as not being high season.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
Can anyone tell me the status of this flight as of now?
How would an EF alert work for CX award seats? Or would it? I have a friend with an EF subscription who will put on an alert for me but it doesn't look like EF does CX awards.
11 Feb is high season in that region, but it is not that bad for ex-US flights.
Aug 2, 2015, 6:00 am
#1505
formerly gemini573
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: LAX, HKG, and BKK
Programs: CX Emerald, WOH Globalist, Marriott Platinum, AA Lifetime Platinum, Virtuoso, Prive, STEPS, STARS
Posts: 2,233
Slightly off topic. Take the info for what's it worth. This is what I heard from a friend of mine who's CX cabin crew. On the manifest, it has the info of the passenger; fare you paid, reason for upgrade, redemption, etc. They also know that a lot of those redeemers are AA members. They have their own app that gives the loading. Example, 3 days out. The loading goes from A1 to A5 (A is the fcl code). All those last minute fcl are redemption tickets and a majority of it coming from AA. Lately, they've noticed it going from A1 to A3.
Aug 2, 2015, 8:45 am
#1506
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Programs: AA Gold
Posts: 3,649
jamie: I have an awardnexus account. I have used it before. It doesn't send alerts though. Guess I'll just have to manually start checking at 14 days before flying or whatever time frame is advised.
Where does everyone see the loading information? How do you know what the current loading is on your flight?
Aug 2, 2015, 9:00 am
#1507
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
Yes, I know that. I figured all the people wanting to go from US to Hing Kong would already be there 4 days before I leave. I was able to get the 1 F seat on my first call to AA along with the J seat for that exact date which was my first choice.
jamie: I have an awardnexus account. I have used it before. It doesn't send alerts though. Guess I'll just have to manually start checking at 14 days before flying or whatever time frame is advised.
Where does everyone see the loading information? How do you know what the current loading is on your flight?
jamie: I have an awardnexus account. I have used it before. It doesn't send alerts though. Guess I'll just have to manually start checking at 14 days before flying or whatever time frame is advised.
Where does everyone see the loading information? How do you know what the current loading is on your flight?
Expert flyer can give load information, insofar as the number of F seats selling. F4 means 4 for sale. You can also experiment by trying to buy a number of seats between 1 and 6 on the CX website, I suppose. Trial and error.
As far as the award release, my recent experience getting 4 F awards for a flight that originally started at F6 went like this: first award 9 months out (unusual), second and third seat (when flight was F5) 10 days out, fourth seat (when flight was F3) three and a half days out. Our flight went out with the remaining two seats unsold. Quite nice having the cabin to ourselves, we had them make up seats 1A and 2A as beds early on, whereas the family sat together in D/K seats. My wife and I simply moved over to the A side when we felt like sleeping.
Jamie
Aug 2, 2015, 9:04 am
#1508
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
Slightly off topic. Take the info for what's it worth. This is what I heard from a friend of mine who's CX cabin crew. On the manifest, it has the info of the passenger; fare you paid, reason for upgrade, redemption, etc. They also know that a lot of those redeemers are AA members. They have their own app that gives the loading. Example, 3 days out. The loading goes from A1 to A5 (A is the fcl code). All those last minute fcl are redemption tickets and a majority of it coming from AA. Lately, they've noticed it going from A1 to A3.
Aug 2, 2015, 9:09 am
#1509
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Programs: AA Gold
Posts: 3,649
From the menu bar, under "award search" you can pull down "create email alert".
Expert flyer can give load information, insofar as the number of F seats selling. F4 means 4 for sale. You can also experiment by trying to buy a number of seats between 1 and 6 on the CX website, I suppose. Trial and error.
As far as the award release, my recent experience getting 4 F awards for a flight that originally started at F6 went like this: first award 9 months out (unusual), second and third seat (when flight was F5) 10 days out, fourth seat (when flight was F3) three and a half days out. Our flight went out with the remaining two seats unsold. Quite nice having the cabin to ourselves, we had them make up seats 1A and 2A as beds early on, whereas the family sat together in D/K seats. My wife and I simply moved over to the A side when we felt like sleeping.
Jamie
Expert flyer can give load information, insofar as the number of F seats selling. F4 means 4 for sale. You can also experiment by trying to buy a number of seats between 1 and 6 on the CX website, I suppose. Trial and error.
As far as the award release, my recent experience getting 4 F awards for a flight that originally started at F6 went like this: first award 9 months out (unusual), second and third seat (when flight was F5) 10 days out, fourth seat (when flight was F3) three and a half days out. Our flight went out with the remaining two seats unsold. Quite nice having the cabin to ourselves, we had them make up seats 1A and 2A as beds early on, whereas the family sat together in D/K seats. My wife and I simply moved over to the A side when we felt like sleeping.
Jamie
Now if i could find some good advice on when UL Sri Lankan releases a second J seat for my husband. Right now on Feb. 26 UL 454 CMB-NRT I'm in J he's in coach and he's not happy for a 7 hour flight. But it's all there is. I've been using BA web site to check but never a second J seat.
Aug 2, 2015, 9:10 am
#1510
formerly gemini573
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: LAX, HKG, and BKK
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Aug 2, 2015, 9:42 am
#1511
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Slightly off topic. Take the info for what's it worth. This is what I heard from a friend of mine who's CX cabin crew. On the manifest, it has the info of the passenger; fare you paid, reason for upgrade, redemption, etc. They also know that a lot of those redeemers are AA members. They have their own app that gives the loading. Example, 3 days out. The loading goes from A1 to A5 (A is the fcl code). All those last minute fcl are redemption tickets and a majority of it coming from AA. Lately, they've noticed it going from A1 to A3.
Aug 2, 2015, 10:03 am
#1512
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Global
Posts: 5,998
...Our flight went out with the remaining two seats unsold. Quite nice having the cabin to ourselves, we had them make up seats 1A and 2A as beds early on, whereas the family sat together in D/K seats. My wife and I simply moved over to the A side when we felt like sleeping.
Jamie
Jamie
Aug 2, 2015, 12:05 pm
#1513
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
FWIW - I set up expertflyer alerts on the CX flights I'm interested in, so each time somebody makes a booking in F, I'm notified.
Best, Jamie
Aug 2, 2015, 12:06 pm
#1514
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
Thanks, Jamie. You are a font of information. I will follow your advice and start looking 10 days prior to the trip.
Now if i could find some good advice on when UL Sri Lankan releases a second J seat for my husband. Right now on Feb. 26 UL 454 CMB-NRT I'm in J he's in coach and he's not happy for a 7 hour flight. But it's all there is. I've been using BA web site to check but never a second J seat.
Now if i could find some good advice on when UL Sri Lankan releases a second J seat for my husband. Right now on Feb. 26 UL 454 CMB-NRT I'm in J he's in coach and he's not happy for a 7 hour flight. But it's all there is. I've been using BA web site to check but never a second J seat.
Aug 2, 2015, 12:09 pm
#1515
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
So I think I had four servings over the course of the flight; mine, the kids, and they had a spare.
CX really is great for premium, family travel. Granted, EK/SQ/JL etc go for utmost privacy in F, so for a solo traveler I can see CX being viewed as somewhat less than optimal. But I find it is the perfect mix of luxury yet still feeling like you're a family, traveling together. The memory of building Legos in a suite with my son while approaching the North Pole is something I'll always cherish.
Jamie