Thank you

What happens to award inventory if I waitlist 2 seats for a return (roundtrip) where the outbound is on waitlist and the inbound is available? Would AM reserve the 2 available inbound seats or is it possible that someone snatches up these seats while i'm waiting for the outbound to clear?

The outbound is LAX-HKG on Dec 15 so I'm not feeling particularly hopeful. Loads in PE are W9 R9 E0.

Each leg of the WL-ed roundtrips are cleared individually. I see your dilemma here but unfortunately that's how it works.

Hello, I'm sure this has been asked before but my efforts at searching haven't worked.

I want to fly YVR-HKG-SYD (85k points J). Currently there is availability on YVR-HKG but HKG-SYD is waitlist, making the while journey waitlist. If I book the YVR-HKG now (70k points J), and waitlist the HKG-SYD (45k points J), if the waitlist clears can I merge it into one booking for 85k points, instead of it ending up being 70k+45k?

Thanks.

Hello all. I've had my flights clear the waitlist via email Friday (Change of your booking status email).

To discuss just one flight: it is on 30th December. Email asks that I please issue ticket prior to 20th December.

However, I've just received a phone call asking me to go ahead and confirm ticket. I had to ask them to call back as I don't have the Asia Miles in my account yet. I have sufficient Amex points to transfer, however, I am also waitlisted on another airline for a more convenient flight. I was hoping to hold the cleared CX flight for as long as possible to see if I am able to clear the other waitlist before I start transferring any points.

Some web resources have shown CX will hold a flight for 30 days after it clears the waitlist; the email indicated it would be held up to 10 days prior to flight time.

This call has me even more confused!

Must I go ahead and transfer points, issue tickets, etc? Or may I wait until the time indicated on the email? Or some other time?

Many thanks!

Just give them a call back and ask for a hold. CX is usually quite lenient in this (technically they can WL up to 6pm on the day before departure I believe). Maybe also explain your situation if they won't budge.

Thank you!

Is there a limit of waitlists that you can create? Or would advise? I'm pretty open on which flight I can take, but don't want to clog the system with waitlists but want something to clear...any advise would be appreciated.

Hi, new to redeem award tickets here
Reading the other thread on changes after June 22 and many saying that there are less award space, can someone give me feedback on how to move forward?
What is the best strategy for redeeming a J/F for 2 persons in the future? It seems like clearing a F ticket for 2 persons is more difficult than for a person. Do I redeem the tickets together in one account, or one by one in the same account, or have each of us redeem separately in our own account? We don't mind having one person in F and another in J.
It's just that I have enough miles to redeem for a person, but not for 2. If I were to redeem for 2 persons in one account, I will have to transfer points from a credit card and I only want to do so unless I'm sure there's a high chance of clearing a waitlist.

Did you eventually get the flights

how soon before the flight when waitlist clear

Just thought I would mention something on here:
Today MAN-HKG became available on 28th. Unfortunately MAN-(HKG)-BKK was only showing available for waitlist. HKG-BKK was still showing as 57,000 business tailored only. I called CX to ask if I could confirm MAN-HKG with HKG-BKK as waitlist and she said MAN-BKK is not available if she searches for it however if she searched as MAN-HKG-BKK it gave lots of availability all at the normal choice level. I managed to ticket MAN-HKG-BKK for the normal 65,000 miles. I could find no-way to do this online and if she hadn't have mentioned it I would have never known.

So seems they can get different connecting availability if you go through the telephone office!

About 10 mins after ticketing this my DUB-HKG-BKK waitlist also came through as confirmed (not that I need it anymore since MAN was my first choice).

How do you know if your waitlist expired? I asked to be waitlisted for ORD-HKG and HKG-ORD from J to F at the end of August/early Sept, wondering if I should call in and waitlist again.
ba.com does not show any first class inventory available. Expertflyer only shows one seat occupied (my GF!), two blocked, three available. Biz class is only half-full, so seems my odds of upgrading should be pretty good.