Not exact matches
If an airline is said to have «good
award seat availability» that means that each flight has a large number of
seats available to those looking to book with miles.
When booking an
award seat, it is always best
if you have a flexible travel schedule and that you check
award availability often.
You'd never be want to pay for those
seats using Flexperks or Arrival points as you'd have to spend ungodly amounts to cover the cash cost of the tickets) To me, the flexibility to book
seats I want, when I want, vastly outweighs maximizing the value I could theoretically obtain
IF I could find
availability using «optimal»
award programs.
Many airlines have tightened up premium
award availability, but that doesn't mean you can't get that coveted
seat if you know where to look.
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.
The
availability is not great, but it only costs 20,000 Avios roundtrip
if you can find
award seats
The aircraft also offers a Premium Economy cabin which, considering how little
seat - width the
seats in Economy Class offer, may be a good compromise
if Business Class is expensive or
if Business Class
award availability is non-existent.
While it can be difficult to snag
award seats to Hawaii on other airlines, it's relatively easy to find
availability on Hawaiian Airlines flights, especially
if you book far in advance.
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.
As stated,
award availability for (saver) business class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance
if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class
seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.
Note that there are also strict booking policies on these
awards that include no refund of your miles
if you cancel the flight, limited
award seat availability on each flight, booking and travel date restrictions, and limited destinations.
But it is also because the cost of frequent flier
awards is pegged directly to the cost of the
seats, so there is often
availability if the price of the flight is low.
But for first class, or
if you want to buy a more expensive
award with last
seat availability, the prices are pretty much the same.
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.
If there are no flights between your selected airports, then you receive this error message suggesting that you try the
Award Seat Availability search page:
However, more expensive
awards do exist
if you want last -
seat availability.
There was another great suggestion that
if American's website is showing 2
seats availability, you can open separate browsers and book those
award tickets on both American AND US Airways site (and possibly British Airways site also), due to the latency in how the websites talk to each other.
Example: Dan writes «Check
availability at least daily (
if not more often) as
award seats can come and go quickly.»
Check
availability at least daily (
if not more often) as
award seats can come and go quickly.
Availability is out of this world good, at least
if you're looking for two (and not more than two) business class
award seats.
It has trouble with some partner
award availability and pulling up
awards with mixed cabins (for instance,
if one flight has a business - class
seat availability but the next segment only has economy
awards available), though that seems to have gotten better lately.
I was technically all set, but I figured that I might as well keep checking
award availability to see
if a
seat opened up on one of the two daily FRA - LAX flights.
If you use United MileagePlus as your primary airline rewards program, it can even be worth signing up for one of their co-branded credit cards just for access to last - seat «Standard» - level award availability, even if you never spend a dollar on the card, since access to those Standard awards can increase the value of Ultimate Rewards points transferred in from Chas
If you use United MileagePlus as your primary airline rewards program, it can even be worth signing up for one of their co-branded credit cards just for access to last -
seat «Standard» - level
award availability, even
if you never spend a dollar on the card, since access to those Standard awards can increase the value of Ultimate Rewards points transferred in from Chas
if you never spend a dollar on the card, since access to those Standard
awards can increase the value of Ultimate Rewards points transferred in from Chase.