They say they first five credits — used to find real
time award seat availability — are free.
Not exact matches
Award seats are limited and their
availability changes over
time.
Award seats are limited and their
availability changes over
time.
Seat availability for
awards varies according to destination and
time of year.
Delta usually has excellent
award seat availability to Europe, Asia and Australia, even during peak travel
times.
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.
Also, every airline releases
award seats at different
times, so it is a little tough to predict when the best
time is to search for
availability.
Although ExpertFlyer no longer searches Lufthansa
award availability, you can use it to see
seat availability on specific flights, and I saw there were plenty of open
seats on both FRA - LAX flights August 3, so I just bided my
time.