ARCHIVE: AA Awards on Cathay Pacific (2016)
Nov 12, 2016, 3:49 am
#2296
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
I am curious how people are seeing availability at the 300+ day booking window for AA miles. I have a periodic search I run and it seems as if YVR-HKG (preferred route) still releases quite regularly five business awards at the initial booking window (as verified on BA award search). How are people finding availability after the approximately 30 days pass before we can book with AAdvantage miles? Even with the devaluation I would find these to be a decent value for getting all five of us over to Asia together.
Nov 12, 2016, 1:02 pm
#2297
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Florida
Posts: 29,763
We are more like "beggar cannot be chooser" type - that is a direct borrowing from our friends who are ex-CX employees and fly standby - they call their tickets "乞丐票".
Nov 14, 2016, 1:13 pm
#2298
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 361
Random question:
Can Cathay open up Y or J space on intra Asia flight to help position me for the long haul flight?
I see availability in F for HKG back to the States, but there's no flight for me to get to HKG.
I am modifying a pre-deval ticket so I already have the positioning flight built into my ticket.
Can Cathay open up Y or J space on intra Asia flight to help position me for the long haul flight?
I see availability in F for HKG back to the States, but there's no flight for me to get to HKG.
I am modifying a pre-deval ticket so I already have the positioning flight built into my ticket.
Nov 14, 2016, 1:29 pm
#2299
Join Date: Jul 2001
Programs: AA EP
Posts: 2,203
Random question:
Can Cathay open up Y or J space on intra Asia flight to help position me for the long haul flight?
I see availability in F for HKG back to the States, but there's no flight for me to get to HKG.
I am modifying a pre-deval ticket so I already have the positioning flight built into my ticket.
Can Cathay open up Y or J space on intra Asia flight to help position me for the long haul flight?
I see availability in F for HKG back to the States, but there's no flight for me to get to HKG.
I am modifying a pre-deval ticket so I already have the positioning flight built into my ticket.
Nov 14, 2016, 2:12 pm
#2300
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 361
Random question:
Can Cathay open up Y or J space on intra Asia flight to help position me for the long haul flight?
I see availability in F for HKG back to the States, but there's no flight for me to get to HKG.
I am modifying a pre-deval ticket so I already have the positioning flight built into my ticket.
Can Cathay open up Y or J space on intra Asia flight to help position me for the long haul flight?
I see availability in F for HKG back to the States, but there's no flight for me to get to HKG.
I am modifying a pre-deval ticket so I already have the positioning flight built into my ticket.
There are only 10 open Y seats left in the flight I want.... I REALLY hope I get lucky and CX opens one of them for award.
Nov 14, 2016, 7:00 pm
#2301
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 42
Would love if anyone has any insights on this - my award booking has been "Ticket Pending" on AA for a month, but has been "Confirmed" on CX as soon as I got off the phone with the original agent who got me on this flight.
Here's all the detail:
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? Should I be concerned? Thanks in advance for any insights.
Here's all the detail:
- Booked pre-devaluation HKG-JFK in F
- Modified a handful of times to get closer to the ideal flight
- Saw CX888 on Jan 3 opened up in F, so I called and got on it
- Went to CX's site as soon as I got off the phone with AA and was able to select my seat, and status showed as "Confirmed"
- Never received an email confirmation
- Called in a week later since it still showed "Ticket Pending" on AA.com and app, agent said she'll get it sorted and expect my email confirmation
- 2 weeks later and still "Ticket Pending" on AA but "Confirmed" on CX, so I called AA again. Agent said it's showing as "Ticketed" on her end, but after further questions, she was able to see what I saw. Put me on hold for a few minutes and assured me she sorted it out and should have an email confirmation coming shortly.
- Now 2 weeks later, it's still the same
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? Should I be concerned? Thanks in advance for any insights.
Nov 14, 2016, 7:28 pm
#2302
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 238
Just found 2 F on awardnexus for next week from ORD to HKG. Called AA and the agent told me that there is nothing available.
Anyone know why this would be the case?
Anyone know why this would be the case?
Nov 15, 2016, 5:30 am
#2304
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,541
HUCA. Since AA started its own HKG flights, agents have to tab further through, sometimes to a second or third screen, before CX options show up.
Nov 16, 2016, 9:38 am
#2305
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 238
Kept calling every day until I got my 2 F awards from ORD to HKG. All set to go next week!
Nov 16, 2016, 9:50 am
#2306
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 488
Just changed the date of my pre-devalued award ticket, ORD - HKG - BKK. I also chose RJ on HKG-BKK segment, it was on cx. Agent wanted to charge me more miles and $150 claiming that because of the carrier change. I asked for the supervisor and also she claimed that I gotta pay up but she put me on hold to double check.
30+ minutes later, she said I was right and proceeded to charge me $1.10 more for taxes.
30+ minutes later, she said I was right and proceeded to charge me $1.10 more for taxes.
Nov 16, 2016, 9:58 am
#2307
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2006
Location: DTW, but drive to/from YYZ/ORD
Programs: Chase Ultimate Rewards 2MM, Diner Club points
Posts: 31,920
is anyone else having trouble using BA.com to find CX availability ? Keeps giving me error " Please provide the following information:
There was a problem with your request, please try again later."
There was a problem with your request, please try again later."
Nov 16, 2016, 10:08 am
#2308
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 488
I did. I had to use Qantas site.
Last edited by IamHungry; Nov 16, 2016 at 1:20 pm
Nov 16, 2016, 12:25 pm
#2309
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EP/4MM, DL GM/1MM, HH ♦, Bonvoy LT PLT, Hyatt Globalist, AMEX Bus Plt
Posts: 620
It's not just CX. AA flights available elsewhere are showing error messages on BA.com right now too.
Nov 16, 2016, 1:50 pm
#2310
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: NYC
Posts: 27,239
Just changed the date of my pre-devalued award ticket, ORD - HKG - BKK. I also chose RJ on HKG-BKK segment, it was on cx. Agent wanted to charge me more miles and $150 claiming that because of the carrier change. I asked for the supervisor and also she claimed that I gotta pay up but she put me on hold to double check.
30+ minutes later, she said I was right and proceeded to charge me $1.10 more for taxes.
30+ minutes later, she said I was right and proceeded to charge me $1.10 more for taxes.
That's when I quoted her the language straight from AA.com that says the phone fee is waived for awards that cannot be booked on AA.com. I mean, she was nice about the whole thing, it's just frustrating that (1) they can't train their employees properly, and (2) they can't build the logic into the system to automatically waive the fee.