As you can see, United provides an easy way to view the availability for each
class of Saver Award over a time span of two months.
When I was trying to put together a South America trip about 1.5 years ago I found a
ton of Saver awards to Brazil and Chile in first and biz.
Saver awards for these flights are starting at 80,000 Delta SkyMiles one way and we just saw a lot
of Saver awards open up but then dry up virtually overnight.
AA offers standard awards at 2x the
price of a saver award and also does not restrict capacity, which is better than United's policy of restricting capacity for non-United elites or credit card holders and charging sometimes 2.5 x as much as a saver award, but try traveling in Europe with UA miles versus AA miles.
He also said that United plans to increase the
availability of Saver award seats by more than 10 percent in domestic and Canadian markets.
Searching with flexible dates allows you to find the best availability
of Saver Awards, which are typically available for half of the miles a Standard Award requires.