Cathay and Dragon Air avail? - tons of seats...then no seats
Oct 27, 2016, 7:10 am
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Cathay and Dragon Air avail? - tons of seats...then no seats
So after much procrastination I finally went in to book an avios flight from PVG to HKG for this coming Monday Oct. 31 only to find that what was once about 10-12 available flights using avios was no ... 0
Anyone have any experience with Cathay and Dragon Air flight availability vanishing closer to departure date? I remember a few years back I was able to book a HKG to Singapore flight same day.
Looking a week later to Monday November 7 there are 15 flights available on either Cathay or Dragon Air.
Guess I'll be booking the cheapest revenue flight but wanted to see if anyone had any similar experiences here.
Anyone have any experience with Cathay and Dragon Air flight availability vanishing closer to departure date? I remember a few years back I was able to book a HKG to Singapore flight same day.
Looking a week later to Monday November 7 there are 15 flights available on either Cathay or Dragon Air.
Guess I'll be booking the cheapest revenue flight but wanted to see if anyone had any similar experiences here.
Oct 27, 2016, 7:26 am
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I have had a few experiences of this. Notably last week when the BA website refused to help me change avios flights (as usual nowadays it seems...).
In the time it took the GGL line to confirm the website was down to waive the fee, 13 seats had disappeared from the flight, leaving only 1 J seat left on CX MNL-HKG at the time I needed. As it is such a quick flight I wouldn't bother with J, but I was left with no choice! This was 2 days before travel, similar thing happened to all other flights on that day.
In the time it took the GGL line to confirm the website was down to waive the fee, 13 seats had disappeared from the flight, leaving only 1 J seat left on CX MNL-HKG at the time I needed. As it is such a quick flight I wouldn't bother with J, but I was left with no choice! This was 2 days before travel, similar thing happened to all other flights on that day.
Oct 27, 2016, 7:48 am
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So after much procrastination I finally went in to book an avios flight from PVG to HKG for this coming Monday Oct. 31 only to find that what was once about 10-12 available flights using avios was no ... 0
Anyone have any experience with Cathay and Dragon Air flight availability vanishing closer to departure date? I remember a few years back I was able to book a HKG to Singapore flight same day.
Looking a week later to Monday November 7 there are 15 flights available on either Cathay or Dragon Air.
Guess I'll be booking the cheapest revenue flight but wanted to see if anyone had any similar experiences here.
Anyone have any experience with Cathay and Dragon Air flight availability vanishing closer to departure date? I remember a few years back I was able to book a HKG to Singapore flight same day.
Looking a week later to Monday November 7 there are 15 flights available on either Cathay or Dragon Air.
Guess I'll be booking the cheapest revenue flight but wanted to see if anyone had any similar experiences here.
Oct 27, 2016, 9:28 am
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hmmmm guess I'll keep checking
Oct 27, 2016, 9:38 am
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Oct 27, 2016, 9:51 am
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This is the thread https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...departure.html
There was an online block on the TPE route but that was lifted. Apparently there remained a block on WUH and CTU but I don't know whether that is still in place. I am not sure whether the block may cover PVG or the issues seen by the OP are resulting from something else.
There was an online block on the TPE route but that was lifted. Apparently there remained a block on WUH and CTU but I don't know whether that is still in place. I am not sure whether the block may cover PVG or the issues seen by the OP are resulting from something else.
Oct 28, 2016, 4:30 am
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This is the thread https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...departure.html
There was an online block on the TPE route but that was lifted. Apparently there remained a block on WUH and CTU but I don't know whether that is still in place. I am not sure whether the block may cover PVG or the issues seen by the OP are resulting from something else.
There was an online block on the TPE route but that was lifted. Apparently there remained a block on WUH and CTU but I don't know whether that is still in place. I am not sure whether the block may cover PVG or the issues seen by the OP are resulting from something else.
The same goes to PVG, PEK, XIY, CKG......
There may be (again??) a 5 days block for TPE. Can someone comfirm this?
Last edited by cysyuen; Oct 28, 2016 at 4:35 am
Oct 29, 2016, 1:58 am
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Oct 29, 2016, 6:41 am
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