Any advice or suggestions would be great please!?

[BLBG]

Hi there. I'm pretty new at this, and would really appreciate some of your advice please fellow flyers!

I've made an award booking for my mother in late Dec:
Melbourne - Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Vancouver using my Qantas FF points.

CX 134 8.50am Melb - 3.10pm HKG
CX 888 1.00am HKG - 8.20pm YVR

Horrid 10 hr stop over!

There's a connecting flight CX838 4.45pm HKG - YVR which I'm
DESPERATE to get her on, but there aren't any award seats of course I've been calling Qantas every day, and even tried Cathay.

Is there any hope or anything I could possibly try in the hope of getting
an X class ticket for that flight, as there is availability, just not for award flights?

Any suggestions please?
Many thanks, and happy travels!

 

[Maca44]

On what date is she travelling?

 

[BLBG]

Hi!
She's traveling on 29/12...

 

[Maca44]

Expert Flyer shows the following (no X seats), and I don't know what fare bucket CX use for their award seats.

CX () 838 0 HKG
12/29/09 4:45 PM YVR
12/29/09 12:05 PM 744
Su,T,F
87% / 20m F4 A4 J9 C9 D9 I9 Y9 B9 H9 K2 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0

Edit: Expert flyers does not show award seats on CX

 

[BLBG]

Thanks for your reply

I'm very new at all this - I'm presuming the 87% is 87% full?

Do they ever open up more award seats closer to the departure date?

Thanks so much for your help!

 

[drewbles]

Thanks for your reply

I'm very new at all this - I'm presuming the 87% is 87% full?

Do they ever open up more award seats closer to the departure date?

Thanks so much for your help!

87% refers to OTP, On Time Performance. 87% of flights get away on time, with an average delay of 20 minutes

 

[BLBG]

Oooooh ok, thanks for that!

 

[NM]

I don't know what fare bucket CX use for their award seats.

Economy awards come from X, business from U and First from Z.

The loadings indicated in this thread, showing K2 and all below as 0 indicate low chance of additional economy award seats becoming available.