ARCHIVE: AA Awards on Cathay Pacific (2015)
Apr 16, 2015, 3:19 pm
#811
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: LAX, LGB, SNA
Programs: AA EXP OWE, DL DM ST+, AS MVPG, UA, BA, WN CP, Hyatt E, Ritz Plat, HH GM
Posts: 3,185
I'm trying to book 2 F (willing to do J) rt LAX-HKG May 22-25 or 21 red eye. When does F availability show up again? I've seen it open up around 3 weeks in advance and a couple days in advance. I'm checking everyday for seats to open up. Is LAX or SFO easier to find availability from? I've been using BA and JAL.
Apr 16, 2015, 3:56 pm
#812
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Florida
Posts: 29,762
I'm trying to book 2 F (willing to do J) rt LAX-HKG May 22-25 or 21 red eye. When does F availability show up again? I've seen it open up around 3 weeks in advance and a couple days in advance. I'm checking everyday for seats to open up. Is LAX or SFO easier to find availability from? I've been using BA and JAL.
Apr 16, 2015, 8:48 pm
#813
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: PIT-SCE-AOO-PHL-NYC-WAS
Programs: free agent
Posts: 1,036
start to watch march 20 or 21, 2016 flights from HKG-JFK or ORD (i live in DC) but i am playing around 330-331 day out (march 11-12), and see no F options on BA.. am little nervous by lack of F on BA.com.. anyone notice similar issues?
Apr 16, 2015, 9:46 pm
#814
Formerly known as jlars77
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: ORD
Posts: 361
Overall close-in availability seems drastically lower than last year, but this could be a function of people understanding the game and snapping up CX seats vs. reduced availability (and of course more revenue pax).
Ex-SFO is surprisingly about as good as ex-LAX with even 2 F seats available one day.
Apr 16, 2015, 10:44 pm
#815
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 5
After reading this forum, I used award nexus to find an F ticket on CX from HKG->SFO for next week. Last week there were no biz class or first class seats available. I haven't tried KVS (don't have a windows machine), but I've been using expertflyer just to check for seat availability 2 years.
I also used award nexus to figure out where to fly this weekend. It has been a nice time saver.
Looking forward to that first class seat for the first time and being forever ruined.
I also used award nexus to figure out where to fly this weekend. It has been a nice time saver.
Looking forward to that first class seat for the first time and being forever ruined.
Apr 17, 2015, 7:19 am
#816
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: BOS
Programs: Marriott, AAdvantage, United, Club Carlson
Posts: 1,687
How reliable is awardnexus? If I want BOS-HKG, will it also look for routing through JFK and ORD? Or does that have to be searched separately?
Apr 17, 2015, 9:34 am
#817
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
I run AN starting 330 days out. In December, for example, I snagged a CX F segment for this summer, that's well inside the usual 330/14 day goalposts that most segments seem to be released.
Good luck.
Apr 17, 2015, 10:37 am
#818
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: LHR, DFW, J Cabins WorldWide
Programs: AA EXP, UA GS, FB Gold, AS MVPG, MR Titanium, VS Gold
Posts: 954
I was able to snag last night a F/J mixed redemption on CX/JAL (get to try CX F and JAL 787 J) using the BA search tool, just wish BA's site was not complete trash.
Apr 17, 2015, 10:43 am
#819
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: ORD
Programs: AAdvantage, UA, Avios
Posts: 637
What is the cutoff time for cancelling CX reservation? Same day works without problems?
Apr 17, 2015, 10:47 am
#820
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
I was told 4 hrs by an AA agent last August. And that's before your first segment ie if you have DPSHKGJFK with a 20 hr layover in HKG you have to snag the F seat 4 hrs before DPSHKG departs. I missed an upgrade this way, hence I now break the segments into two awards (requiring more miles).
Apr 17, 2015, 11:08 am
#821
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: LHR, DFW, J Cabins WorldWide
Programs: AA EXP, UA GS, FB Gold, AS MVPG, MR Titanium, VS Gold
Posts: 954
Now just hoping my LHR>HKG frees up a FC seat on the A380, and/or JAL flies a FC aircraft between KIX>LAX.
Trip right now: PDX>DFW to LHR BA 77W F > LHR to HKG BA A380 F > HKG to KIX CX F 77W > KIX to LAX JAL J 787 > PDX
Edit: I scored the upgrade less than 24 hours after ticketing
Last edited by IWontRegretThis; Apr 17, 2015 at 9:32 pm
Apr 17, 2015, 11:56 am
#822
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: FIND ME ON TWITTER FOR THE LATEST
Posts: 27,730
Apr 17, 2015, 9:23 pm
#824
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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BTW, I can't say for 100% sure that the bolded (in the reference material) 4-hour CX rules -doesn't- still appear in AAgent reference materials, so they may still quote it in some cases.
Last edited by JonNYC; Apr 17, 2015 at 10:26 pm