A question on waiting to
see Saver Award availability: I booked 2 award tickets with Alaska to Hawaii for the last week of Dec 15 (11 months in advance).
I saw saver award availability from OGG to DFW on AA, so I called Etihad to try and book this flight using Etihad miles.
Not exact matches
United
saver level
award availability from SFO is the best we've
seen so far in our research.
I kept monitoring it to
see how it trended as the dates got closer and although economy
award space still hasn't opened up I suddenly
saw wide open
availability to Europe at
saver levels the entire months of July and August: All summer!
Finding
saver awards on American Airlines (the
awards you'll need to find to book this kind of trip) is hard so, unless you can
see availability online right now, I wouldn't buy miles with the expectation of booking this
award easily.
In the image below, you can
see plenty of
Saver Award availability from IAH to CDG.
Award availability on Alaska matches what you'll
see on Alaska's own website (for redemptions at the low /
saver level).
I
see availability on both for Delta
Saver awards...... but when calling Korean...... they can't
see or haven't received this
availability.
I can
see the flight as a «
saver award» on united.com because I have a united chase explorer card, even though for non-cardholders, united.com shows no
availability.