*A Award search issues
 

I was doing long term award searches using the ANA award search site and was seeing a lack of availability on AC.

My searches were 300+ days in the future for travel from ORD to PEK. I am not looking to travel in February, just seeing what options are available that far out.

I did similar searches on the CO award search site and CO shows AC availability connecting through YYZ. For example, if you do a search for ORD->PEK on Feb 14 for 3 people, you will see C/J and Y availability on CO but only Y on ANA

Does ANA engage in any starnet blocking like UA has done?

Did you try searching the individual segments on ANA rather than the connecting itinerary? It often struggles with the connections.

Also, is it possible that CO is showing F/C for ORD-YYZ and not for YYZ-PEK? They will do that some times and you have to actually get to the end to see which segments are in F/C and which are in Y.

Yes, I restricted the searches to the component segments and it gives the same results. For example on Feb 14, CO shows 3 C/J seats on AC from YYZ to PEK. The ANA partner award search does not,

I have seen that before too. But again on Feb 14, CO shows the opposite. The flights from ORD->YYZ are all in Y. But it shows the YYZ-PEK in C/J.

It looks like there is either a bug in the ANA partner search or ANA is engaging in some form of blocking. I am not saying it is one or the other.

Just to make sure, I did the searches again before replying.

What does the Aeroplan search engine say for that (full route and individual segments)?