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sfo to bkk Mar 13, 2018 1:27 pm


Originally Posted by sfo to bkk (Post 29520451)
Hi all,

I'm new to Asia Miles as I've been previously been using AAdvantage miles to fly CX get to China. Now I plan to use Asia Miles.
I've searched around but haven't been able to get a direct answer to my inquires for award wait listing using Asia Miles.
I'm planning a trip to Xiamen from SFO in November for my son and I. I see award availability for 11/13, but ideally I'd like to go on 11/10,11, or 12.

Questions...
Can I book and confirm the 11/13 seats and still wait-list my three preferred days?
Each day there are two to three flights from SFO, can I waitlist multiple days and multiple flights? I was told by Asia Miles customer service that only one waitlist was possible. This didn't sound right to me.
Assuming this is all possible, I would have to rebook by calling AsiaMiles and paying $40 per flight sector, $40 fee x 2 passengers x 2 segments per passenger = $160, is this correct?

Any additional guidance is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help...


Sorry this is for J class.

G-CIVC Mar 13, 2018 2:19 pm


Originally Posted by sfo to bkk (Post 29520451)
Hi all,

I'm new to Asia Miles as I've been previously been using AAdvantage miles to fly CX get to China. Now I plan to use Asia Miles.
I've searched around but haven't been able to get a direct answer to my inquires for award wait listing using Asia Miles.
I'm planning a trip to Xiamen from SFO in November for my son and I. I see award availability for 11/13, but ideally I'd like to go on 11/10,11, or 12.

Questions...
Can I book and confirm the 11/13 seats and still wait-list my three preferred days?

Yes

Each day there are two to three flights from SFO, can I waitlist multiple days and multiple flights? I was told by Asia Miles customer service that only one waitlist was possible. This didn't sound right to me.

At most 3 flights in total per leg (so 3 SFO-HKG, 3 HKG-XMN)

Assuming this is all possible, I would have to rebook by calling AsiaMiles and paying $40 per flight sector, $40 fee x 2 passengers x 2 segments per passenger = $160, is this correct?

It will depend on how much luck you have - if you can make all your desired changes at once then you wouldn't have to multiply

Any additional guidance is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help...


percysmith Mar 13, 2018 6:50 pm

//It will depend on how much luck you have - if you can make all your desired changes at once then you wouldn't have to multiply

Will multiply - unless you can US$100 reissue in lieu

ajima Mar 13, 2018 10:02 pm

Hi, I am a newbie here

I am waitlisting on these flights for my sister. What is my chance of clearing 1 biz class ticket? I am MPC SL if it helps. Thanks in advance :-)

CX 104 0 MEL
03/30/18 3:20 PM HKG
03/30/18 9:50 PM 359
Daily
90% / 11m J9 C8 D6 I0 W0 R0 E0 Y5 B4 H0 K2 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

CX 134 0 MEL
03/30/18 8:35 AM HKG
03/30/18 3:10 PM 359
Daily
78% / 27m J7 C7 D6 I3 W2 R1 E0 Y0 B0 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

CX 178 0 MEL
03/31/18 12:40 AM HKG
03/31/18 7:05 AM 77W
Daily
98% / 9m J9 C9 D6 I0 W3 R1 E0 Y9 B9 H8 K9 M9 L1 V6 S0 N0 Q0 O0

percysmith Mar 13, 2018 10:50 pm

First two flights - none - you see y selling out. They'll cannibalise j seats to sell y

last - maybe j will be made available close in. But in close in they really may mean 6 hours

ajima Mar 13, 2018 11:20 pm


Originally Posted by percysmith (Post 29522353)
First two flights - none - you see y selling out. They'll cannibalise j seats to sell y

last - maybe j will be made available close in. But in close in they really may mean 6 hours

Thanks. I thought the deadline for waiting list is 4 days before departure, no?

And what is your advice on the flight below? Do I stand a better chance? Appreciate your help.

CX 134 0 MEL
03/31/18 8:35 AM HKG
03/31/18 3:10 PM 359
Daily
78% / 27m J9 C9 D9 I5 W7 R7 E3 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L2 V7 S0 N0 Q0 O0

percysmith Mar 14, 2018 2:27 am

CX134 31 Mar - looks good. Esp since the Y seat map doesn't look filled with real occupied

hl176 Mar 14, 2018 10:39 am


Originally Posted by G-CIVC (Post 29520692)
Each day there are two to three flights from SFO, can I waitlist multiple days and multiple flights? I was told by Asia Miles customer service that only one waitlist was possible. This didn't sound right to me.

At most 3 flights in total per leg (so 3 SFO-HKG, 3 HKG-XMN)

When did they change the max waitlist per flight to 3? I remember that I would be able to waitlist the same for for the entire week at once

percysmith Mar 14, 2018 1:31 pm


Originally Posted by hl176 (Post 29524187)
When did they change the max waitlist per flight to 3? I remember that I would be able to waitlist the same for for the entire week at once

Since 2010 waitlist rule change at least https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...edemption.html

and for am and gr, agents frequently only allow one waitlist/sector these days.

hl176 Mar 15, 2018 12:38 am


Originally Posted by percysmith (Post 29524996)


Since 2010 waitlist rule change at least https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...edemption.html

and for am and gr, agents frequently only allow one waitlist/sector these days.

That's really odd since when I waitlisted a seat for a week every day consecutively, there wasn't any issue and this was last dec. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you guys are saying

percysmith Mar 15, 2018 1:37 am

On the same segment?
So e.g. you waitlisted Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun on HKG-NRT (even if different flight numbers)?

I didn't know that was possible. Are you still a GR?

hl176 Mar 15, 2018 1:58 am


Originally Posted by percysmith (Post 29526931)
On the same segment?
So e.g. you waitlisted Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun on HKG-NRT (even if different flight numbers)?

I didn't know that was possible. Are you still a GR?

Yeah I waitlisted like that except for 889 so same flight number for all the flights. Yeah I'm a Green; I've dropped from Silver since 2017

AmD950 Mar 15, 2018 2:08 am

Wow. Even a DM/GO cant do that.

G-CIVC Mar 15, 2018 2:10 am

Wait, would that have been two PNRs or more? Then that sounds plausible

percysmith Mar 15, 2018 2:43 am


Originally Posted by G-CIVC (Post 29527000)
Wait, would that have been two PNRs or more? Then that sounds plausible

Then you may be unable to join outbound and inbound flights

Why not create ten single one-way waitlists?


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