Not exact matches
I search for
award availability past the dates I'm willing to travel so that my
award doesn't expire before Etihad has a chance to
release inventory
This will secure that
award inventory for a certain period before
releasing it to the public.
It's all very well for American's
award chart to show cheaper
awards but if the airline doesn't
release any
inventory those
award costs don't mean very much.
American Airlines only allows you to book
awards 331 days out so you may well be planning a trip right now for which the 331 day marker has not yet passed —
awards haven't yet been offered so you know that no one else has booked up all the
award inventory an airline is prepared to
release.
Airlines keep a tight control over how many
award seats they
release — usually less than 10 percent of their
inventory in a 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.
Then, airline credit card users should keep checking back as the flight's departure nears to see if a regular seat opens up, as airline
release award seats from
inventory closer to the flight's departure.
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