The top five spots for overall
award seat availability went to: airberlin and Southwest with 100 percent; Virgin Australia with 96.4 percent; Air Canada with 90.7 percent; Singapore with 90 percent; and JetBlue and Lufthansa tied for fifth place with 87.1 percent.
Not exact matches
Often, people sign up for a credit card and its accompanying airline rewards program, but when they
go to redeem the miles, they become disappointed in the
availability of
award seats.
Or you could get a United first - class
award seat, which is
going to cost you 160,000 miles per roundtrip but has better
availability.
Secondly, this sees a significant decrease in the number of Business Class
seats available on the route and that's not
going to be good for upgrades or the already pathetic
award availability.
While this is true to some extent,
award seat availability — which we
go over in the next section — is severely limited on certain dates throughout the year.
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.
Example: Dan writes «Check
availability at least daily (if not more often) as
award seats can come and
go quickly.»
Availability is unfortunately always
going to be an issue with
award seats — that's the constraint in the system I try to preach flexibility above all else, so you usually can come by the Saver Level
seats needed to book the 35k Singapore miles on United flights.
Check
availability at least daily (if not more often) as
award seats can come and
go quickly.
I agree with your analysis in general, but I find that
availability for
award seats tend to lean more to flights
going to HKG rather than leaving out of HKG.