Most airlines limit the amount of award seats
available on any given flight.
Award seats are not always going to be
available on any given flight (except maybe Southwest), but that's fine.
Not exact matches
By looking at the amount of window, aisle and middle seating
available on each
flight, at the time of check - in, Dr Rogers, calculated the chances of all four people being randomly
given middle seats
on each of the
flights, to be around 1:540,000,000.
The best
flight we found from Los Angeles to Sydney during our timeframe was
available on May 26th,
given the great stopover found for the return
flight to Los Angeles.
Of course, some frequent flyer program members might have simply overlooked
available flights given the complaint regarding poor search tools, number four
on the list, and the difficulty (including
flights not showing up in a search) in booking awards
on partner airlines, a peeve that rounded out the top five.
The new
flight features,
available on mobile immediately and rolling out to desktop later this year,
give travelers more ways to compare prices for different dates, airports, and hotel locations for their desired destination.
To
give you an idea how many more seats will be
available on each
flight (and how many seats each cabin will now have) here's a comparison between Virgin's Airbus A330 and its Boeing 747 aircraft.
If a
flight doesn't have upgrade space immediately
available (green check mark) then you'll be placed
on the waitlist (yellow triangle) and
given priority ahead of any complimentary elite upgrades.
Priority Reservations Waitlisting - when there aren't any seats left
on your preferred
flight,
gives you priority should a seat become
available.
Be sure to have the confirmation number, date of travel, and
flight number
available to
give to the telephone representative (online forms are also
available on most airline websites).
If I'm going to spend hard - earned miles I'm going to try to redeem them
on the best carriers
available (as long as they don't charge ridiculous surcharges) and those that
give me the best
flight options.
We accept bids
on all
flight inventory
available at a
given time.
But, Amex is
giving you 35 percent of your points back when you buy
flights with points through American Express Travel (you must select one airline for economy bookings, but you get 35 percent back
on ALL business and first class
flights available through Amex Travel).
They will try to do the search for you, but knowing which
flights are
available allows you to spoon feed to the agent the specific
flight numbers for each leg to ensure they don't
give up
on you (which they will try to do).
When
available, Business Class passengers are
given a choice of Western, Filipino, and Japanese dishes
on flights, as well as a wide selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
16.2.2 If a Classic Upgrade Reward is not
available at the time of request, then the Member will be
given the option to register for a Classic Upgrade Reward should one become
available in the future
on the Member's booked
flight.
Our fastest Application will search
on all the data of
Flights provided added by the supplier and will search out the
Flight information according to the search criteria
given by the admin
available.