Not exact matches
Air Canada
releases most
award seats the day they open, so it can be easy to get
availability on tricky flights, especially for groups
Lufthansa generally only
releases award seats to partners within a week or so of departure, so you can book business class and change to first - class if
availability opens up.
British Airways guarantees that it will
release at least 2 Business Class
seats on every flight so, as this route has just be loaded in the past few hours,
award availability should be plentiful right now....
Airlines
release a limited number of
award seats per flight, so if you have a large family and all want to travel together, it may not be possible to find enough
award availability.
IdeaWorks» recently
released 6th annual survey of
award availability revealed that Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways offered abundant
award seats compared to rivals.
Availability: Typically Singapore only
releases 1 suites class
award seat in advance, although occasionally you'll see 2
award seats available close to the date of departure.
Sometimes, when you try to change one direction of a round trip, you have to
release your
seat on the direction you aren't changing, which incurs risk that said
seat /
award availability may in fact either get scooped up or not go back into inventory in time for you to scoop it back up.
Also, every airline
releases award seats at different times, so it is a little tough to predict when the best time is to search for
availability.
What was accurate and fair about the survey was that it ranks Delta much higher for close - in
availability as
award seats are often
released more freely within two weeks of departure.