How exactly does CX Waitlist work for awards?
Jan 18, 2017 | 6:43 pm
#331
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: CX GO, IHG Dia Amb
Posts: 830
Hi I am waitlising on the following flights. Would anyone please check the chances for me?
28 Jan KA691
31 Jan KA634
Thank you so much!
28 Jan KA691
31 Jan KA634
Thank you so much!
Jan 18, 2017 | 8:21 pm
#332
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Jan 18, 2017 | 9:40 pm
#334
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Maybe some chance on the KA691 but not the KA634, no matter Business or Economy.
Jan 21, 2017 | 1:18 pm
#336
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SF Bay Area
Programs: AA LT PLT 3 MM+, BA (very) Blue, CO nobody
Posts: 2,640
I am looking into getting an award from SFO to SYD via HKG.
The flight from SFO arrives around 7 PM.
There are 2 connections - one around 9 PM and another one around 11PM.
The latter seems available most of the time but not the earlier one.
If I get the award for the later connection, can I wait-list for the earlier one just in case it may open?
If so, how do I do that - online or with an agent?
TIA
The flight from SFO arrives around 7 PM.
There are 2 connections - one around 9 PM and another one around 11PM.
The latter seems available most of the time but not the earlier one.
If I get the award for the later connection, can I wait-list for the earlier one just in case it may open?
If so, how do I do that - online or with an agent?
TIA
Jan 21, 2017 | 9:01 pm
#337
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CX161's the hardest to get cos it's the most family friendly.
You can ticket CX101 and waitlist CX161, and reissue for 4,000AM/US$40 if it clears. Add the waitlist by phone, you will be allowed to waitlist right up to departure.
You can ticket CX101 and waitlist CX161, and reissue for 4,000AM/US$40 if it clears. Add the waitlist by phone, you will be allowed to waitlist right up to departure.
Jan 21, 2017 | 9:52 pm
#338
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SF Bay Area
Programs: AA LT PLT 3 MM+, BA (very) Blue, CO nobody
Posts: 2,640
Jan 22, 2017 | 6:16 pm
#339
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Posts: 8,171
I waitlist by phone all the time, and my waitlist always expires four days (or longer if falls on a weekend) before departure. Occasionally it did show I was still waitlisting on my account after the deadline, but that never cleared.
Jan 22, 2017 | 7:06 pm
#340
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(Contrast: me trying to get from ticketed Premium Economy to Business for Easter: 4 day waitlist still set)
on Sun this week. (Rebook via BA 
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Jan 25, 2017 | 12:15 am
#343
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: CX, UA, Shangri-La, Hyatt, Starwood
Posts: 8,245
call them and ask for an extension of the deadline. the "deadline" is so darn annoying, and it makes much of the waitlist benefit moot....fight them on it
Jan 25, 2017 | 1:21 am
#344
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: CX GO, IHG Dia Amb
Posts: 830
May I ask for experts here to check on the chances of clearing waitlist please? KA692 on 1 Feb. Thank you!
Jan 25, 2017 | 4:34 am
#345
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