Intra-Japan BA avios awards
Jul 30, 2018, 9:55 pm
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It seems the two month restriction continues for JL domestic flights. Just looking at a few routes there seems to be plenty of availability between 1-2 months out so I wouldn't worry, just set a note in your calendar two months before you need to fly and book on ba,.com.
Why do you think Seoul-Tokyo is not bookable with avios? I have booked that route before going in the other direction with no problems - search for the GMP-HND in book with avios, GMP won't auto-complete but just leave it as GMP and it will work. I tried a few days and there was availability and it does seem bookable more than two months out. Same for Shanghai to Tokyo, search for PVG-TYO will bring up the PVG-HND and PVG-NRT flights. Also bookable more than two months out.
Why do you think Seoul-Tokyo is not bookable with avios? I have booked that route before going in the other direction with no problems - search for the GMP-HND in book with avios, GMP won't auto-complete but just leave it as GMP and it will work. I tried a few days and there was availability and it does seem bookable more than two months out. Same for Shanghai to Tokyo, search for PVG-TYO will bring up the PVG-HND and PVG-NRT flights. Also bookable more than two months out.
Feb 7, 2019, 6:49 pm
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Not in the sense that it used to be possible to book them a year in advance. It's now the normal 60 days. I don't know the -exact- timing when seats are released and it is possible it is slightly different to JAL's own awards, but not substantially.
On the other hand, whereas you need to book JAL domestic awards five days in advance if you're using JMB, you don't if you're using BA. You can even just go to the airport and book the next flight out while there on routes that have plenty of flights.
On the other hand, whereas you need to book JAL domestic awards five days in advance if you're using JMB, you don't if you're using BA. You can even just go to the airport and book the next flight out while there on routes that have plenty of flights.
May 20, 2019, 3:01 am
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Japan domestic awards not available to book?
May 20, 2019, 3:20 am
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Not sure how route specific this might be, as I was able to book a HND-CTS ticket for September back in April via the BA Exec Club Call Centre. Reservation has been ticketed.
May 20, 2019, 3:28 am
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I also have NGO - HND and a couple of flights from KIX. Initially they seemed reticent, but once I firmly insisted it was possible and I had done it before they booked them all for me. Strange they tried to book them all on one ticket, seemingly out of sheer laziness, but I pushed back on that as if I missed the first flight they'd cancel the rest.
May 20, 2019, 7:29 pm
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WOW if you tell me you can book with more than 60 days using a different agent this is a GAME CHANGER... that means I would book awards for extremely busy dates as JAL only allows award booking 60 days before the flight...
May 23, 2019, 3:44 am
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Assume the impending Avios rates changes will impact JAL domestic redemptions?
(Struggling to find the general thread on the topic...)
(Struggling to find the general thread on the topic...)
May 23, 2019, 3:47 am
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Jun 17, 2019, 3:24 am
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Over the last year or two there seem to be varying reports of JL domestic reward flights sometimes not being available more than 60 days out - although there have been occasional reports of people getting lucky on the phone. However, from 1 September 2019 JAL will allow booking of domestic flights up to 330 days out so I wonder whether this will also apply to rewards as well?
JAL to accept domestic bookings 330 in advance from Sep 10 2019
JAL to accept domestic bookings 330 in advance from Sep 10 2019
Aug 26, 2019, 5:16 am
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Hello,
I've been trying to price up a one-way avios redemption flight between Tokyo and Osaka using the BA redemption finder. I keep getting an error message saying that it can't handle connecting flights. Am I doing something wrong? I also tried picking a few specific dates in the 'search and book' function but nothing there either.
I've been trying to price up a one-way avios redemption flight between Tokyo and Osaka using the BA redemption finder. I keep getting an error message saying that it can't handle connecting flights. Am I doing something wrong? I also tried picking a few specific dates in the 'search and book' function but nothing there either.