JAL business award seats via Qantas

[SteveLL]

It appears JAL no longer releases business class tickets via Qantas 360 days out? Checked reddit and it appeared to have started 6 months ago

 

[PointsTraveller!]

What I've found is that they still do but only when looking at destinations not in Japan.

There has been availability 360 days out from MEL-NRT-BKK but not MEL-NRT.

 

[SteveLL]

it is getting absurd now. There's no one single business award seat from Aus to Jap

 

[elanshin]

it is getting absurd now. There's no one single business award seat from Aus to Jap

Off peak there tends to be some availability and not released at the exact timing. It just shows up especially on the BNE - NRT route.

There's of course the JAL F that also shows up once they firm their schedule up.

 

[SYD]

it is getting absurd now. There's no one single business award seat from Aus to Jap

QF metal ex BNE is getting a bit of love. I saw some SYD-HND also.

Curiously some options via MNL and elsewhere QF-JL. So not sure if it’s JL restricting or QF IT is broken? We went thru this with EK for months.

 

[Bbjai]

Off peak there tends to be some availability and not released at the exact timing. It just shows up especially on the BNE - NRT route.

There's of course the JAL F that also shows up once they firm their schedule up.

First seems hard to get - haven’t seen availability for a while

 

[elanshin]

First seems hard to get - haven’t seen availability for a while

It's actually relatively easy compared to business (with both QF and JL) - problem is you have to wait a lot closer to departure.

 

[Bbjai]

Yeh I am checking everyday for second week of April

 

[Hunter4vr]

Anyone having luck snagging JAL seats right when the calendar opens? It used to be fairly reliable to book a year in advance, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I'm not even seeing much last-minute space popping up either.

 

[levelnine]

Anyone having luck snagging JAL seats right when the calendar opens? It used to be fairly reliable to book a year in advance, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I'm not even seeing much last-minute space popping up either.

JAL has changed business strategy recently. They have entered the US credit card market in a major way, becoming partners with Capital One, Bilt and Citi. They are concentrating the release of award seats in their own program to take advantage of this influx of US credit card points. I'm not surprised that they're releasing fewer seats to partners.

 

[SYD]

Anyone having luck snagging JAL seats right when the calendar opens? It used to be fairly reliable to book a year in advance, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I'm not even seeing much last-minute space popping up either.

I haven’t been looking at Oz-JP, but I was seeing two J seats SYD-USA via JP regularly popping up on the outer limits of the search window up until a month or two ago.

It’s possible they’ve not released as many during NS?

 

[levelnine]

Still plenty of availability at end of schedule on JL's own program: