You are probably correct. You have to get two upgrade awards instead of one companion award, and each of the upgrade awards is at a lower priority than a companion award. OTOH, at least both of you can fly even if upgrades do not clear.

BTW, upgrade awards may be cleared one at a time. If you do go for upgrade, you may also consider doing the two upgrades separately so CX won't wait for two upgrades available before clearing both of you.

I'll probably stick with the companion because i do need the I class ticket to reach gold renewal (as per my other thread). Worst case I'll buy an economy and offer to my fiancee the business.

Question on the last minute availability

Looking at Aug 31st CX897 LAX-HKG 09:30 departure, J is wide open but F not available. The dates before and after all have Fs showing up now. Can I conclude this flight has a relatively full F cabin? Can some kind souls have access to seat inventory post what you see?

Holding 1F and 1J on this flight. AS tickets. Was hoping to see an F become available last minute. Does not seem likely now.

31/8/2016

Thanks.

Waitlisted for R --> U on CX 806 18/9 - flight is currently J9C9D9I4 and 32/53 taken already

Should I forget about the upgrade getting through? U class is wide open mid-week before and after but just not for that weekend. Even JFK had some U availability...

CX said OWEM makes no difference since the miles are coming from my mum (she's a nobody), and they said they can't do anything. Can I waitlist for additional flights (i.e. a day before or other ports like LAX/JFK?)

I swear I'm not doing this again but the first leg (ex-XXX) sector had no I availability...

Pretty extreme withholding from partners
 

This morning I encountered a pretty extreme example of withholding from partners. This time it's affecting QF FF as well as BAEC:

31/12 HKG-KIX

AM: At least 6 seats on each of CX562 and 594 (I can go all the way down to payment page this time)

http://www.hongkongcard.com/webedito...5516_29783.png

BA: one seat on CX562 (result is the same no matter which country of residence is used, I tried switching)

http://www.hongkongcard.com/webedito...5620_89652.png

QF: not more than 1 seat (if one seat, CX562 was available)

http://www.hongkongcard.com/webedito...5704_87617.png

If CX continues with this I see fewer opportunities for burning Avios.

So I've gone ahead and purchased myself an I ticket and applied for my fiancee's companion award ticket, and all segments are wait-listed. I've checked the availability on each and this is what's showing:

MNL to HKG
J9 C9 D9 I8 W9 R9 E9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 O9

HKG to YVR
F4 A4 J9 C9 D9 I0 W9 R9 E9 Y9 B9 H7 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

YVR to HKG
F4 A3 J9 C9 D9 I0 W9 R9 E2 Y9 B9 H9 K4 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

HKG to MNL
J9 C9 D9 I9 W9 R9 E9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 O9


Considering all segments have at least 9 business class seats open, what's the likelihood of all being confirmed?

Trip begins September 22nd, and I do still have a Gold status

Don't trust your EF data blindly! On your date, I suspect I2 is actually available.

Hi Percysmith,

Thanks for the reply! I saw that too. Last night I tried to purchase the I class ticket and I wasn't able to. The EF alert i created informed me this morning that an I class ticket became available so I booked. But at the time I took the EF reports it stated 0 but I was still able to do another dummy booking. Weird.

But either way, it seems like there's lot of business class seats available on each segment. Crossing my fingers. :)

Hello,

Perhaps someone could help me out here.

I've been waitlisted for the following flights for a few weeks now :

1. CX 659 16 Sept HKG - SIN
2 CX 716 18 Sept SIN - HKG
3. CX 714 19 Sept SIN - HKG
4. CX 636 18 Sept SIN - HKG

Seems like seats are pretty scarce when I try to make a dummy booking. Also, on the redemption website, they won't allow anymore economy redemption... I'd be grateful if someone would be able to check the seat availability. Thinking of whether I should bite the bullet and buy the now quite pricey fare or wait/call MPC and hope for the best.

Many thanks in advance and any advice would be much appreciated.

x

CX 659 0 HKG
16/09/16 1:45 SIN
16/09/16 5:25 333
Daily
95% / 13m J9 C9 D9 I9 W5 R4 E2 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M5 L8 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

CX 716 0 SIN
18/09/16 18:05 HKG
18/09/16 22:05 333
Su
95% / 12m J9 C9 D0 I0 W6 R1 E0 Y6 B4 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

CX 636 0 SIN
18/09/16 20:10 HKG
19/09/16 0:10 772
Daily
82% / 16m J9 C9 D9 I0 Y9 B9 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

CX 714 0 SIN
19/09/16
Daily
52% / 37m J9 C9 D9 I9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

Think the data is POS-affected tho, cos lowest fare on 659 should be V and 714 S

Brilliant as always - Thanks percysmith!!

Hmmm it seems like from those numbers i can wait a bit and hope the flight there and the Sept 19th flight clears

x

I've found that the HKIA desk to be quite helpful (and definitely much more helpful compared to the hotline). Not sure if I can describe in detail since I don't know if what the staff did was allowed, but they definitely gave me a lot more information than those on the phone regarding waitlist clearance and loads etc ;)