Advice for Award availability US to South East Asia
Jun 29, 2018, 3:24 pm
#1
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: MSP
Posts: 24
Advice for Award availability US to South East Asia
With the recent CX deval the flight I had been looking at is now gone as well as any other J class ticket on CX. I have looked at SFO,LAX, DFW,ORD,JFK,EWR,BOS, and IAD and there is no J availability on CX anywhere. Even looked into YVR and YYZ. I am finding premium economy but AA will not let me book that.
Home airport is MSP but I am willing to position if needed.
Departure date is 3/24/19 but can adjust a few days either way. I need to be in PEN 3/29.
I have been looking for anything on JL but again no J class tickets. Delta has options but all have 11-12 hr layovers and are on China Southern with the last leg in Y.
Does anyone have any suggestions for other options?
Current currency
AA 165K
DL 180K
HH 65K
SPG 26K
Marriot 23K
Home airport is MSP but I am willing to position if needed.
Departure date is 3/24/19 but can adjust a few days either way. I need to be in PEN 3/29.
I have been looking for anything on JL but again no J class tickets. Delta has options but all have 11-12 hr layovers and are on China Southern with the last leg in Y.
Does anyone have any suggestions for other options?
Current currency
AA 165K
DL 180K
HH 65K
SPG 26K
Marriot 23K
Jun 29, 2018, 4:04 pm
#2
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
Posts: 20,993
With the recent CX deval the flight I had been looking at is now gone as well as any other J class ticket on CX. I have looked at SFO,LAX, DFW,ORD,JFK,EWR,BOS, and IAD and there is no J availability on CX anywhere. Even looked into YVR and YYZ. I am finding premium economy but AA will not let me book that.
Home airport is MSP but I am willing to position if needed.
Departure date is 3/24/19 but can adjust a few days either way. I need to be in PEN 3/29.
Home airport is MSP but I am willing to position if needed.
Departure date is 3/24/19 but can adjust a few days either way. I need to be in PEN 3/29.
Or more realistically flights to major airports in the area. Then a separate flight to PEN.
Separate flights have risks, but if you can get the long haul premium awards may need to take that risk
MH (Oneworld) CX, & SQ are airlines in that part of the world
Not all awards are available on line. Sometimes you have to phone. Depends on the ffp
Great Circle Mapper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang...tional_Airport
Jun 29, 2018, 4:26 pm
#3
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: MSP
Posts: 24
I have been looking for CX availability to HKG as well as JL availability to TYO so it checks both NRT &HND. I have been searching my flights segment by segment. Other than AA, CX, and JL I’m not sure what other Oneworld carriers fly transpacific flights. I know there is BA and QR but those are not allowed per AA rules. QR would be allowed but priced at 2 tickets.
Jun 29, 2018, 4:49 pm
#4
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I have been looking for CX availability to HKG as well as JL availability to TYO so it checks both NRT &HND. I have been searching my flights segment by segment. Other than AA, CX, and JL I’m not sure what other Oneworld carriers fly transpacific flights. I know there is BA and QR but those are not allowed per AA rules. QR would be allowed but priced at 2 tickets.
BA fly the other way across the Atlantic.
HA is a non OW AA partner with some Asian destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_destinations
FJ is a non OW AA partner with some Asian destinations (NAN-SIN).
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...r-airlines.jsp
https://www.oneworld.com/flights/where-we-fly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Changi_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_...tional_Airport
Jun 29, 2018, 6:08 pm
#5
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: MSP
Posts: 24
Thanks for the info but looking through it appears any AA partners would require 2 award tickets. SIN only has *A carriers with US bound flights and I have no currency with them. and MH has no US originating flights.as they all appear to be terminated.
I have about a month until I have the remaining points I need for the my overall trip so i'll check but likely i'll have to book the flight there on CZ through DL. Also looking that AA has much better availability from Europe to USA it may be the better option.
I am however glad I booked the last 2 J seats on a QR A380 leaving BKK on my dates.
I have about a month until I have the remaining points I need for the my overall trip so i'll check but likely i'll have to book the flight there on CZ through DL. Also looking that AA has much better availability from Europe to USA it may be the better option.
I am however glad I booked the last 2 J seats on a QR A380 leaving BKK on my dates.