Partner Reward Availability on CX
 

Does anyone know why the oneworld partner rewards may not show on CX website?

For example AKL-DOH in J 17 May 2024 or any dates around then. Plenty of availability showing on AA website for QR and MH flights, but nothing showing on CX.

New to asia miles, is this normal?

AA may show phantom space. Does it also show on AS and BA? If it does, could try calling in.

There is plenty of availability showing on both AA and BA, so I'll give CX a call later in the week - thanks for the reply :)

I have on some instances checked with Asiamiles and they cannot see the availibility. I see it on BA and AS.

Is QR blocking seats from Asiamiles

BA will also have preferred access into QR

I recall talking to an executive from a OneWorld airline (sorry cannot mention names) about variations in inventory, and he said the airlines don't necessarily make the same inventory available to all their partners, so looking at a partner should be considered indicative

And we have always been at war with Eastasia! https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...l#post24791807

Always been a Oceania man myself, go IngSoc!

Yes I read the quote, however caveats and exceptions also come into play, plus the various airline systems do not always 'talk' to each other. JAL's can almost be described as zenophobic.

I think there is a thread on QR availability with CX miles and the consensus was CX do not get full availability to QR seats for some reason.

Yes, unfortunately. I have compared the availability for BA (available) and called in to CX to check (None)

BA (Avios) has privileged access to QR award inventory.

Reading through the thread it looks like the agreement is asperational not necessarily something that will happen

(sorry you baited me into another Orwell) All FFPs are equal but some FFPs are more equal than others?

To return to the original question:
1. It is often the case that award availability varies according to the partner FFP. As an example, CX tends to offer F/J CA availability to its MPC members first, then release to other FFPS if not picked up with a few days/weeks.

2. AVailability can be partner dependant. For example, QR F/J availability could be there for some partners but not for others. Also, there might be phantom availability. QR has two levels of awards, standard and x2 (meaning twice as many miles). Some airline IT might pick up the x2 awards while these are not bookable as standard award. QR has special agreements with BA and AA, not CX.

3. Even for its own members QR has been quite stingy for J/F award lately. Their yield management seems to cut availability for long periods of time (e.g. summer) and then reinstate it.

I doubt QR 2X will be visible to Cathay AM (this will be akin to AA's dynamic pricing where only the most dirt-cheap rate will be visible to partners like Cathay AM)?

Is there a specifc time of day that Award access becomes availale, IE 11:00AM at 355 days out?

At the moment, it's not measured in "days from now", though more "after March 2024, just no availability".

i'm planning to transfer a large sum of points from my CC to my Asia miles account to book 4 tickets on partner airline. How likely is it that CX site shows phantom partner inventory? The flight i'm looking at is on AY. CX shows 4 available and BA shows 4 available as well. However AS and AA shows 1.

I don't want to transfer the points over and end up not able to book the flight, especially with the upcoming devaluation.

I just used AM to book a number of BA flights. It seems that Seats.aero will show what is available via AA and it is usually pretty accurate. Do note however CX system did not show availability for me if not every leg of the travel had availability!