ARCHIVE: AA Awards on Cathay Pacific (2015)
#751
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 1,050
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#753
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: ORD
Programs: AAdvantage, UA, Avios
Posts: 637
I would expect there to be the reinstatement fee ($150 I think)... you are putting the F class award back into your account, and claiming a new Y class award. The fee waiver only applies if you are upgrading to a higher priced award, I think downgrading would incur the fee.
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To note, there's a good chance that a couple of F tickets ORD BKK May 14/24 come back into inventory soon.
#754
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Programs: AA Gold
Posts: 3,643
Has anyone noticed a sudden lack of even one F award on CX 806 HKG-ORD for 330 days out? I have been looking every day and I cannot find a single F seat available for AA award booking on the JL site. I was planning to use this flight on my return from my Sri Lanka vacation but I may route back to the US via NRT on JL flights. There are also no J seats on the CX flight to Chicago from Hong Kong. Do you think this is because there is only one flight a day now and this route is more popular than LAX?
There does seem to be seats on the HKG-LAX flights. But I will be limited to certain days of the week as I will originate in CMB and the CMB-HKG flight does not fly everyday.
There does seem to be seats on the HKG-LAX flights. But I will be limited to certain days of the week as I will originate in CMB and the CMB-HKG flight does not fly everyday.
Last edited by susiesan; Mar 28, 2015 at 7:35 am
#755
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: ORD
Posts: 1,844
Frustrating last few days, looking at 2 award seats available at JAL.com (two separate flights), and AAwards continues to offer only 1.
The "funny" thing is.. except for these two flights, JAL's award availability agrees with AA.
The "funny" thing is.. except for these two flights, JAL's award availability agrees with AA.
Last edited by zznoname; Mar 27, 2015 at 2:56 pm
#756
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,517
Grab the one. Maybe the second will then pop up. I've experienced this with AA.
#757
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: ORD
Posts: 1,844
Yes. Good advice.
Last edited by zznoname; Mar 29, 2015 at 7:15 am
#758
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: NYC
Programs: AA 2MM, Bonvoy LTT, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 14,620
Cathay Pacific / CX (inc. First and Business Class) award - questions, availability
You can't integrate and not sure why you would want to either.
#759
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Thousand Oaks, Ca., USA
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#760
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: NYC
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Penalty will be the same as long as both tickets are being put back into the same advantage account at the same time. $150+$25 for each additional.
You can put back a JFK-HKG and a DUS-LAX (as an example) from two unused award and it will be $175 provided the conditions above are met.
You can put back a JFK-HKG and a DUS-LAX (as an example) from two unused award and it will be $175 provided the conditions above are met.
#761
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Florida
Posts: 29,731
Penalty will be the same as long as both tickets are being put back into the same advantage account at the same time. $150+$25 for each additional.
You can put back a JFK-HKG and a DUS-LAX (as an example) from two unused award and it will be $175 provided the conditions above are met.
You can put back a JFK-HKG and a DUS-LAX (as an example) from two unused award and it will be $175 provided the conditions above are met.
You are saying as long as you cancel 2 tickets (from the same account) at the same time, it is $150+$25, regardless they are booked under different PNRs?
#762
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Location: NYC
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As with AA, HUACA if agent tells you anything different.
If you are making routing changes involving multiple passengers you have to actually consider whether it is actually cheaper to reinstate/issue new awards (without cancelling award space) at $150+25 than to do a $150/pp exchange. AA can definitely reinstate/issue new award without cancelling award space as evidenced by the countless times many of us has moved from J to F.
#763
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Location: Florida
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That is correct. It does not have to be same PNR. Two months ago, was able to put back PVG-HKG-JFK for passenger 1 and EWR-HKG for passenger 2 and 3 for $200.
As with AA, HUACA if agent tells you anything different.
If you are making routing changes involving multiple passengers you have to actually consider whether it is actually cheaper to reinstate/issue new awards (without cancelling award space) at $150+25 than to do a $150/pp exchange. AA can definitely reinstate/issue new award without cancelling award space as evidenced by the countless times many of us has moved from J to F.
As with AA, HUACA if agent tells you anything different.
If you are making routing changes involving multiple passengers you have to actually consider whether it is actually cheaper to reinstate/issue new awards (without cancelling award space) at $150+25 than to do a $150/pp exchange. AA can definitely reinstate/issue new award without cancelling award space as evidenced by the countless times many of us has moved from J to F.
#764
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: NYC
Programs: Marriott Platinum, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 155
I have an AA miles award reservation for HKG-ORD-JFK. If space on a direct flight opens up, I know I can switch to HKG-JFK without a fee since I am not changing O or D, but what about HKG-EWR? I would think so since JFK/LGA/EWR are coterminals but I want to check if anyone has done this and if a change fee was charged.
#765
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Changing EWR to JFK (vv) will involve a change fee. O/D stands for original and destination airports.