Mattyana2003
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But still nothing at all for 2017!
Oops meant MARCH 2017!
But still nothing at all for 2017!
I think I am going to give up on ever being able to use my points for J fares. Very frustrating.
Not really true - I have always been able to secure a J seat transpacific when I was after 'em.The Trans-Pacific seats have always been a rarity. None of these are EY operated.
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Not really true - I have always been able to secure a J seat transpacific when I was after 'em.
A couple of years ago, J seats transpacific were prolific.
Although, moire recently this tightened and by stalking at 330 days I was still easily able to procure said seating ... last year this seems to have changed and daily searching from about 300 days has been more productive.
Work on it, be flexible and you'll likely be successful.
I wonder why 300 days out works better than 1 year out? Still nothing in March!
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I am not sure why these are classed as rare ?>
I've had recent luck as well. At the weekend I booked a J seat LAX-BNE-SYD in late July and released a LAX-SYD seat I had booked earlier back into the system. I'd been checking pretty much daily for my preferred return date and was rewarded. Worth paying the cancellation fee for that extra week's holiday. FWIW, in the month or two I've been checking I saw the odd J seat come and go (both directions) on other July dates, probably from cancellations as plans firm up, so you can get lucky if you stay vigilant.
As I indicated, the Trans-Pacific business class seats have NOT always been a rarity.If this is the only way you can secure such seats, then that should be classified as rare.
"Rare" doesn't mean no chance of success, but you need to tell people in the game this kind of thing when they are starting with a huge stash of Velocity points which they may want to use. Just having the points alone doesn't instantly give you a Business Class ticket that you want (cf. cash).