Does a released Business class award seat remain in award class if I cancel

Hi
As a WP, I believe and call up the FF plat desk and request a business class seat be released if there are none available.

If I then cancel my booking once the seat has been released and allocated to me, does it remain in business award availability class?

Thanks

 

I searched the QF forum and found a thread back in April where you could no longer ask for an economy award seat to be released but you could still request business or first.
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I'm just not sure if this was the thread I was thinking about or whether there was another thread that said you could no longer request any type of award seat to be released..

But yes, if I can I will post the results

 

I was able to request a business class seat.. In fact the QFF agent offered to put in a seat request for business class. It will take up to 48 hours and I have to call back on Friday. However, there is no guarantee that this request will come through. I had to 'pay' the 2500 points telephone booking fee but it doesn't really matter.

I decided not to try the booking an cancelling. What I wanted to do was to get a seat released into U inventory then cancel my booking and use my AA points to then book it. That was until I found out that AA doesn't get access to all the seats that QF release into U class. For example, I could book economy seats online, but AA could not see any economy seats available on the same flight.

So now instead of costing 35000 AA points and probably about $30 in taxes, it will cost 72000 +2500 QF points and $120 in taxes.

But that's ok.. Better to use the points then lose them

 

no - just me trying to save a few thousand FF points and fuel fines. It's my own fault, I should have called AA a few weeks ago when there were quite a few U class seats available.. anyhow, all solved now..

Hmm.. not a bad idea except they each time would cost 5000 poins in cancellation..

 

WP status. Good to know what AA members can see..