It claims this will mean
more award availability at the «lower levels,» but that doesn't mean more availability at the lowest level.
More variation usually
means more award availability but also makes it more difficult to score the lowest price if you're willing to be flexible with your destination and schedule.
Singapore Airlines is another recent partner and also lets you book on Star Alliance carriers but
with more award availability on its own flights than it offers to United customers.
With that much lift between the two cities, travelers should have a better chance for more award seats this summer (especially on Air France, which seems to
offer more award availability than Delta on this route).
Even carriers that like to promote themselves as having
more award availability than their competitors aren't necessarily promising a good deal.
The unlikely winners in all of this are actually manufactured spenders, because there will be fewer miles to go around and
more award availability.
Because there are so few of these rooms they're usually quickly snapped up by these looking to use their Hyatt points and, because the true «standard rooms» are no longer classified as such,
no more award availability needs to be released — the hotel can «honestly» say it has complied with the World of Hyatt terms.
Another transfer partner is Singapore Airlines, which opens up
more award availability to its own members than it does for partner awards for those booking via another program.
Standard awards which cost additional miles and have
more award availability are remaining the same cost.
You'll have access to
more award availability.