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ernestnywang Sep 20, 2012 11:44 pm


Originally Posted by bagold (Post 19354133)
How about the ICN route? Do they change equipment last minute too? Trying to decide if I should fly CX?

Yes this applies to all regional routes.

AA_EXP09 Sep 21, 2012 5:00 pm


Originally Posted by bagold (Post 19354133)
How about the ICN route? Do they change equipment last minute too? Trying to decide if I should fly CX?

Service and soft product masters more to me, so I would.
Plus, I have better chance of opup than on OZ (and I am *G)

jamienbaker Oct 4, 2012 3:55 pm


Originally Posted by midlevels (Post 19281355)
What I don't understand is why CX is allowed to treat people with paid tickets are AM tickets differently.

I see lots of reports from people who have AM redemptions who are given HKD500-1000 cash compensation for downgrade from F to regional J, which is a complete joke.

Why should paying passengers get more, when as far as the airline is concerned the tickets are both paid for, just using different currency.

If CX ever did this and tried to fob me off with HKD500-1000 cash I would be raising a hellstorm at the airport.

Agreed. I'm a family of four on AA awards, SINHKG in F. For the family, F cost extra 50,000 points vs J, I'd be quite irritated to receive HKD2000 as compensation. That's $175! Street value of 50k AA points is clearly greater than $175!!!

seawolf Oct 4, 2012 8:24 pm

SIN-HKG equipment lottery
 
I think you get your miles back. The cash is just for the inconvenience.

mayodave Oct 4, 2012 11:40 pm

Huge risk of equipment change on this route for sure

jamienbaker Oct 5, 2012 3:44 am


Originally Posted by seawolf (Post 19440184)
I think you get your miles back. The cash is just for the inconvenience.

I would certainly try with AA, a good reason to hold on to boarding passes.

Cathay Boy Oct 5, 2012 6:20 am

Well, with the NEW regional J I'm sure there will be less complains? :D

kyushuman Oct 12, 2012 8:04 pm


Originally Posted by Cathay Boy (Post 19441881)
Well, with the NEW regional J I'm sure there will be less complains? :D

My 77W F on a paid ticket HKG-SIN is now on an OLD 773, 2-3-2 Regional C seat. Talk about a downgrade!
Of course bulkhead is blocked, so I'm in row 14 at a window.
Yuck.
This was purchased in April. There are no flights on my date with F seats now, otherwise I would have switched. There does seem to be one on a 77W with new regional C, so maybe I could switch to that.
What's the experience with downgrades--ticket issued by AA (paid ticket)-- can I change my flight to the one with the new regional C seat? Or should I wait and see since there could be more changes before December?
Thanks for any advice.

ChrisLi Oct 12, 2012 8:29 pm

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A403 Safari/8536.25)

New regional C is not available yet (and they will only install regional C on 773 and 772, not 77w

What you see is probably 77G (J, W, Y 3 class) if you see a 1-2-1 seat map and feature long haul business class seat. However if you see a 2-3-2 seat map then it is going to be old regional J

AA_EXP09 Oct 12, 2012 9:42 pm


Originally Posted by jamienbaker (Post 19439055)
I'd be quite irritated to receive HKD2000 as compensation. That's $175!

HKD 2000 is more than that.
It's more than $260...

jamienbaker Oct 13, 2012 6:34 am


Originally Posted by AA_EXP09 (Post 19487314)
HKD 2000 is more than that.
It's more than $260...

$258, you are correct. Clearly insufficient for loss of 50,000 AA points. Though as others have noted, I might have recourse with AA.

Awesom Andy Oct 13, 2012 11:38 am


Originally Posted by Cathay Boy (Post 19441881)
Well, with the NEW regional J I'm sure there will be less complains? :D

You mean the new regional Y+ labelled as J? :eek:

Not that we have been on it, but judging from currently available information, it's certainly nowhere near the Cirrus seat, let alone F.

pssteve Oct 14, 2012 10:44 am

Our HKG-SIN flight in mid Jan just changed aircraft for 3rd time in a month.Started as J,went to F then back to J now back to F with seats assigned.:cool:

QRC3288 Oct 14, 2012 4:40 pm


Originally Posted by pssteve (Post 19493855)
Our HKG-SIN flight in mid Jan just changed aircraft for 3rd time in a month.Started as J,went to F then back to J now back to F with seats assigned.:cool:

to save yourself some grief, I might recommend not paying any attention to that until a few weeks before your flight.

Awesom Andy Oct 14, 2012 7:34 pm


Originally Posted by QRC3288 (Post 19495437)
to save yourself some grief, I might recommend not paying any attention to that until a few weeks before your flight.

Or a few hours before the flight, for that matter...


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