Update: Due to high fraud they have made this restriction and it applies to:CX, JAL, and Hainan
What does fraud have to do with close in availability ?
Third party bookings??
Will DL book over the phone?
Good news!!!! https://travelcodex.com/alaska-airlines-reverses-72-hour-advance-booking-restriction/Will DL follow?
Now on DDMShttps://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/alaska-kills-option-book-last-minute-flights-asian-partner-airlines/
I deserve HT no? I requested it....
Post on the HAT thread
Updates to DDMS posts don't get HT's IME.
Wasn't that the first time posted?
Is this really such a big deal ?
Most people use these to book in 1st class last minute because ahead of time they usually only open one seat. If they wouldn't have had last minute availability I wonder if I wouldn't have been able to return with my family all together. I have 5 people but they only showed 4J seats so I booked me and kids on one flight (Sin-HKG-LAX) and my DH a couple on one a couple hours later, taking the risk that we'd be able to switch him. Because they had availability, we were able to change my husband's to our flight and all go together. I wonder if they would have still let this though since it was changing a current ticket not a new one (although I'm not sure how AS would have done it if they couldn't see availability).
I'm sure your husband was thrilled the seat opened up!
Definitely thrilling to have to deal with the kids.