In the last few days, I was trying to find the trend on
Etihad award seat availability.
Not exact matches
It's important to remember that not all
award seats that are shown on the
Etihad Guest website are available to be booked using AAdvantage Miles —
Etihad needs to have «Guest Business»
awards available for there to be
availability for AAdvantage miles redemptions.
Etihad award space is available on its own website; look for «Guest
Seat»
availability to find
award space made available to partners.
If you are scrambling to lock in
awards at old rates, you might be having trouble finding
Etihad business / first class
award seats even though
Etihad shows
availability.
Even on dates with 5
award seats on
Etihad's Jet Airways configured 777 - 300ER flights (which are a rather poor first class product, hence the lower demand for them) there's no A380
award availability.