ExpertFlyer now showing CX Award Availability?
Sep 7, 2019, 9:20 am
#32
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 3,165
Unfortunately AS only has a US POS.
However with AA, if you live in Canada, UK or a bunch of other countries where they have a POS, this may be possible. By default they use the US POS when calling their US 1-800 number. You need to remind them to switch to the Canadian POS if your account is registered in Canada. Just tell them before the booking is started that you want to pay for the taxes in CAD.
Sep 8, 2019, 11:27 am
#33
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: TPE / HSZ
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@ernestnywang The dump from Sabre looks like it shows U availability, as in U4 or U1. Is this new? I want to alert my agent so she can tell me instantly if U award is available.
Also, what the heck is P fare class, has anyone figured out yet? Is this J class award inventory?
Also, what the heck is P fare class, has anyone figured out yet? Is this J class award inventory?
Sep 10, 2019, 6:20 pm
#34
Join Date: Oct 2012
Programs: CX - DM; Hilton - Diamond, Marriott - Titanium
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Just checked on my HKG-MXP flight in Oct. F6 A6 Z1 currently shown on EF but when I logined and checked on CX site, First class awards (both standard and choice awards) were shown as waitlisted. So I am not sure if EF actually reflects the actual award inventory available.
Sep 10, 2019, 8:19 pm
#35
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Just checked on my HKG-MXP flight in Oct. F6 A6 Z1 currently shown on EF but when I logined and checked on CX site, First class awards (both standard and choice awards) were shown as waitlisted. So I am not sure if EF actually reflects the actual award inventory available.
Sep 11, 2019, 2:31 am
#36
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Classes, Z, U and P even if showing availability cannot be booked and is coming back as "UC" or "Uncomfirmable"
It looks like this is probably the work of a disgruntled employee at CX who somehow "unsecured" viewership of those inventory classes that are meant to be hidden.
Sep 19, 2019, 7:19 pm
#38
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AA uses Sabre and so does Expert Flyer.
Someone at CX must have forgotten to restrict viewership to only certain Pseudo City Codes (those used by AA internally) resulting in all Sabre users being able to view.
Sep 19, 2019, 8:04 pm
#39
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: London
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I've noticed some ExpertFlyer functions/URLs have references to Galileo in them. For example, querying the Booking Class Table in fare information results loads a URL called "bookingClassResults.do?galileoLineNumber=..."
Sep 20, 2019, 6:31 am
#41
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Sep 20, 2019, 7:32 am
#42
Join Date: Jan 2017
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True, but I guess there aren’t many people out there who know the ways to check like us. Further, sometimes it’s not about availability but knowing the availability to facilitate trip planning.
Sep 20, 2019, 2:07 pm
#43
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Sep 22, 2019, 7:26 am
#45
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