TAM award availability
Dec 8, 2009, 2:17 pm
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TAM award availability
On question about TAM award availability from Europa to Brazil an vice versa.
I try to book an award via miles and more. Until a few month ago, there was always a good availability in D U T booking class for intercontinental flights. Now, it seems, that there is no availability any more at all. I checked a few weeks from germany, italy, UK and france to brazil, and there was not free one seat any more. This is also confirmed by miles and more. Is TAM giving award space only to its own frequent flyers, or is this a problem for fidelidade members also?
I try to book an award via miles and more. Until a few month ago, there was always a good availability in D U T booking class for intercontinental flights. Now, it seems, that there is no availability any more at all. I checked a few weeks from germany, italy, UK and france to brazil, and there was not free one seat any more. This is also confirmed by miles and more. Is TAM giving award space only to its own frequent flyers, or is this a problem for fidelidade members also?
Dec 8, 2009, 6:34 pm
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All I can chime in with is that I just recently got a domestic award ticket with Fidelidade points with no problem for Dec 18.
You didn't mention when you were flying.If sometime this Spring, might a restriction on award seats be tied to the upcoming entry of TAM into *A? That is, reduce or limit variables to make the initial transition/integration simpler?
You didn't mention when you were flying.If sometime this Spring, might a restriction on award seats be tied to the upcoming entry of TAM into *A? That is, reduce or limit variables to make the initial transition/integration simpler?
Dec 8, 2009, 8:07 pm
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AFAIK Fidelidade members there is not "certain amount" of seats available for redemptions. As far as there is a free seat on the plane, you can book it. I never had any issues on this. You need to book at least 7 days prior to departure though. Don't know about M&M
Dec 9, 2009, 6:12 am
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Dec 10, 2009, 12:18 am
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I tried it for several month between january and june, without any success. Perhaps it has indeed sth to do with the entry into *A or the revent change to amadeus.
Domestic space is stil there, also for m&m members (but it also is a little bit worse than spme month ago, but there has to be some advantage for you fidelidade members also
)
Domestic space is stil there, also for m&m members (but it also is a little bit worse than spme month ago, but there has to be some advantage for you fidelidade members also
)
Feb 2, 2010, 12:55 pm
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I have never had success with JJ international awards and doubt it will happen now. Domestic ones are never an issue, as others have commented. Given the lousy JJ point expiration policy I'm switching to using a *A program, probably US, when I fly JJ. Given that I'm on JJ a great deal I'd like to stay with the Fidelidade but it is just too poor a program. Maybe they will improve it before I do finally change. Almost no benefit from Vermelho makes me even more likely to switch.
Feb 27, 2010, 2:58 pm
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TAM Awards on ExpertFlyer
As some of you may know, we briefly had TAM award availability on ExpertFlyer (D,U,T) before TAM stopped displaying the classes. We see here: http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,52289,00.html that is looks like TAM may soon realign their award class structure.
Can anyone shed light on what the correct award classes are so we can display them on EF? Thanks for your help.
Can anyone shed light on what the correct award classes are so we can display them on EF? Thanks for your help.
Feb 28, 2010, 12:30 am
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As some of you may know, we briefly had TAM award availability on ExpertFlyer (D,U,T) before TAM stopped displaying the classes. We see here: http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,52289,00.html that is looks like TAM may soon realign their award class structure.
Can anyone shed light on what the correct award classes are so we can display them on EF? Thanks for your help.
Can anyone shed light on what the correct award classes are so we can display them on EF? Thanks for your help.
Feb 28, 2010, 1:10 pm
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Mar 1, 2010, 12:59 am
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Yes, T was international Y award, D and U was C and F (or F and C). But for those international classes I have not seen any space for month, not on EF and not via M&M Hotline (perhaps via TAM it is different).
May 5, 2010, 8:22 am
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