Meet on the plane or DAD/HAN
 

I booked flight Jun 8th-July 6 for HAN-HKG-SFO round trip and Sept. 6-Sept 21 for DAD-HKG-JFK. Would be great to find someone have similar travel plan to meet on the ground or plane. For JFK flight, I am on First class and take one into first class lounge.

Is the writer of the blog going to give me credit for writing a post about something I called out here and on the other thread days ago? 😁

Nope xD. I figured it on 2 Jan when I got stuck in DAD, but went on another trip to Kuala Lumpur so only posted yesterday hahaha
I actually did not follow this thread until mod linked my article here lol

This is going to affect me too. I was holding a J class flight to Vancouver for May which I wanted to upgrade using my Diamond 1600 upgrade certs. Bummer.

My comment was very tongue in cheek - my posts didn't get much traction here - I'm just happy to say my hunch was confirmed by another source!

Great ... another missed mistake fare :(

I was out of internet for much of Xmas and New Year and only saw this yesterday ...

Well I will have to live it out by proxy - please post your experiences people!!!

Mrs. QRC and I stepped on-board CX a few days ago for our first flight this year, and I wondered was this both our first and last CX F flight in 2019?

Then I tuned back in here after a hectic week. I realize CX seems to have done as well as they could given the circumstances. At least kudos to them for being decisive. It seems CX has partially rectified things a bit from my perspective (wanting A fare inventory not to be totally zeroed out and unpredictable across ex-HKG and ex-other ports). By effectively not allowing date changes on the mistake fare without a reprice to the normal fare, they've at least seriously cauterized the wound. Technically to do that, it seems they are killing all ex-Vietnam discount premium fare buckets to North America.

CX is still going to have a lot less predictability in F class to North America, and I still think A fare overall will be reduced broadly. But I actually think it might lead to more op-ups. Because I imagine some of these tickets are going to be no-shows, instead of outright cancellations. Given there are so many more more Y and J seats on the plane, CX might end up overselling Y and J slightly more than usual if they see a pattern of more F no-shows than usual. I'm not really sure but that seems possible.

I feel bad for those actually based in Vietnam who fly D/I or A fares, those travelers are definitely getting the most screwed here if they were loyal to CX or needed CX for any reason. It looks like the biggest consequence of CX honoring their mistake fares is killing their ex-Vietnam premium business, at least for the next year, and those pax who rely on CX in that market are definitely hit the hardest.

Congratulations to those who got cheapo seats. My condolences to those of you who are Vietnam-based and who actually fly D/I or A fares as part of your normal life in 2019.

Yes I wonder how long this reduced inventory is going to last? Maybe it's a stop-gap until they find some other way to prevent changes to the cheap tickets. It seems odd that they would kill all legit premium purchases ex-Vietnam, unless this volume was so low it doesn't matter.

simple stopgap solution would be to discount / price F bucket fares ex-VN under the old "A" fare pricing regime.

so maybe the miss out on full F fares (but then again - that has got to be a small market ex-VN?) - alternatively, they could revert to normal F pricing say 1-2 weeks prior to departure (which is when people typically pay for full F fares?)

I believe that it is not just ex Vietnam discount premium fares that have been cancelled, it is all discount premium fares to Vietnam also. I had planned to go from MNL later in the year when the regular I fare would be about $1200 but it is now over $3500. This will kill the front end of all Vietnam flights.

I believe Tom Young was talking about a return ticket MNL-HKG-HAN/SGN, not MNL-HKG-USA, in which case $1,200 for an I fare might well have been an accurate pricing level.

Sorry my bad....however from what I know, HAN, DAD is priced similar to RGN, where the KA legs are operated by A320. Normally they are in the neighborhood of $1600-$1800 exMNL. SGN was priced at around $1000 similar to most SEA destinations serviced by CX. A quick check today SGN is at $1,300 with Business Save only available on the inbound flights. Further in April, its back at $1200.

For HAN (I'd assume is similar to DAD) there are dates (1/24-1/31) that it's ay 1,747.56 on Business Save (I-Class). When I tried to book for my positioning flights in June and November it was actually at $2,200 for business or $500 in economy...I'm actually thinking of taking SQ from Manila, they have a travel fare this weekend and it's like US$906 including taxes for Business Class..