That being said, the major downside to using frequent flier miles to redeem for flights is
the lack of award availability.
If you have miles in a specific frequent flyer program with plans to go to a specific destination, your dreams could be spoiled by
a lack of award availability or a devaluation.
Not exact matches
A word
of warning about how Delta's
award booking engine works: if any flight segment is
lacking Low level
availability, the overall miles cost will be increased.
Lack of availability and blackout dates are not the same — I've booked
award tickets for holiday travel.
My girlfriend Ashlee's
lack of work vacation days put us in a pinch to find
award availability within a tight window.
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Will you be booking one
of these
awards or is the
lack of availability for a second passenger a deal breaker?
The lowest Spirit's redemption rates are unambiguously called Free Spirit Master Card, and contrary to what you might have heard about the
lack of availability, finding these
awards is completely possible (please trust the guy who has done it on more than one occasion — me!).
I called Hyatt Gold Passport reservations line and inquired about the
lack of availability for
award reservations on 12/25 & 12/26.
Have your hopes for a dream vacation ever been ruined by a
lack of airline
award availability?
Plus they're so trained by Delta's poor IT, broken pricing engine, and
lack of availability to assume that double and triple mileage
awards are all that's available.
In my opinion, given the
lack of availability that is continuing to get worse, American may very well end up being the least valuable
award mile before much longer.
This is a quick example
of what I've observed for a while — that since last year, AA
award availability has improved from the pathetically
lacking state
of a few years ago.