dkerr

Once you have started your itinerary you can still change parts of it, e.g. your return flight. However the OP is asking about changing a flight after he has checked in and is enroute which is something else. You cannot make changes once you are checked in. The AAgent can offload you from a flight but it is not something they do very often and likely to cause complications with any checked baggage.... for this reason, if you are holding out for a J to F change within 24 hours, do not check in online until you are sure you are ready to.

Also OP has stated that the DCA flight leaves DCA 7 hours prior to the connecting CX flight departure. I believe that any CX award flight using AA miles needs to be ticketed by 4 hours prior to departure. So it is a fairly small window for a change to take place that would free up another award seat. Yes could happen, but I will suggest unlikely.

Also if you are enroute and need to re-ticket, I'm not sure how they do that keeping the origin airport the same... as you have already traveled that first segment, so the new ticket would be JFK-HKG rather than DCA-JFK-HKG. How do they do that? Normally would be a ticket exchange plus additional miles, or a ticket cancel / reinstatement of miles / withdraw of new miles. But how do you cancel or exchange a ticket that is already partially used?

Anything is possible, but this is probably right at the edge of possible.

DAK

jamienbaker

Good point given small window. In my most recent case, I was flying DPSHKG/HKGJFK with a 22 hr layover. I was specifically told once I fly the DPSHKG segment I could make no changes to the long-haul leg. Hence, I simply booked a stand-alone DPSHKG, and once ticketed, dropped the initial DPSHKG segment from the DPSHKGJFK PNR. Sure enough, upon landing in HKG, F was available on HKGJFK. This should clear up some of the earlier posts.

Here's a question, what if OP's F award becomes available 2 hrs before the originating short-haul? If it doesn't ticket in time, that could be an issue. If you are long miles, break it off a day before and just suck up the loss.

Good luck - Jamie

woow14610

Folks....

I appreciate your help as I am new to CX reservations. I started reading thread extensively but what I am not sure if I am late to do my reservations.

I am looking to fly ROC-CMB via BKK (layover here for about 4 days) So I am trying to find 2 F seats in Dec 12th leaving ROC and leaving BKK on 17th. I am currently stuck and do not see any options...does seats become available later or should I drop my hopes?

Gongzuokuang

Not disputing the point...

But I don't think ORD changed. I presume the .5 you reference was the now discontinued flight 805. That was one of the three-class flights, with no "F". So I don't think ORD went from 9 to 6. I think they just stayed at 6.

But what it would've caused is a substantial drop in the availability of J redemptions, pushing some award PAX up to F. (I do that when using AsiaMiles... F is way overpriced in that currency, so I do J whenever I can. When using AA miles... F is a sweet deal.)

starbuk

I don't see anything out of ROC but out of New York there are economy seats available as well as 1 seat in JL F to BKK.

Most popular routes to BKK or HKG are snapped up either 330 days out or within a couple weeks of flight, when CX releases its remaining inventory (if there is any). I would not give up but would look for other options like flying in J or even booking Y then hoping to get the premium cabin as it becomes available.

JIMCHI

Have award space in J & F PVG-HKG-SFO on KA/CX. When I booked this CX used "married segments" so that space was available PVG-HKG-SFO but not HKG-SFO. I saw that there were many PVG-HKG flights that were part of a "married segment" to the HKG-SFO flight. It wasn't until after I booked the space and was ticketed that I learned that PVG-HKG flights are notoriously late by hours. I would like to take an earlier PVG-HKG flight but F is no longer available HKG-SFO. I'm afraid that if I try to change the PVG-HKG flight that it will detect "unmarried segments" and cancel my F space from HKG-SFO. Has anyone ever tried to do this before and been successful without encountering major problems?

seawolf

If you are ticketed you should be fine making changes.

beachfan

Just to confirm, if I am ticketed on SIN-HKG-LAX, where only that route was available when I booked and not HKG-LAX, then it is safe to do s "drop-hold" to wind up with just HKG-LAX?

I'm a little nervous about the "should be ok" instead of "will be ok", so hoping for someone with recent experience.

JIMCHI

I read somewhere on this forum that if you cancel part of a married connection, that the transpacific segment will come back as cancelled. That's why I'm a little afraid of just changing my connecting flight to an earlier one.

jamienbaker

That's true if it hasn't been ticketed yet. I've dropped/modified/added married segments over a dozen times post-ticketing. Never a problem.

bmchris

I tried it once - reservation canceled. It's a risk.

tng11

I think the key is to have it ticketed, then you can start messing around (EXP members are at a distinct advantage in this regard)

jamienbaker

How long after ticketing? I typically wait about a week. Are you sure you were ticketed? I've added international legs from HKG, I've taken them off, I've changed them from BKK to SIN. Basically, I book JFKHKG 330 days out and then as the year progresses, decide where in Asia we feel like going. NEVER had a problem.

bmchris

I should clarify. This was before ticketing.

opus2002

What do you do with final leg of the flight? The JFK-HKG-final leg? Do you do a change destination, which will incur a fee if non-AA status?