Because the miles are being used to purchase a cash ticket you don't have to
wait for award availability to open up — as long a there's seat for sale on the aircraft customers can use miles to pay (or part pay) for that seat.
Not exact matches
The card has been approved and I'm
waiting for it to come, but I have my eye on a
award ticket with XN
availability only...
If you like to travel during peak travel times,
waiting until a couple of weeks or months before your travel date is a recipe
for not finding the
award flights or hotel nights that you want since
availability is limited.
I've had a quick look on BA.com and there seems to be a very good amount of
availability (probably why this promotion is on in the first place) but, if you think would work
for you don't
wait too long to book as there may be a lot of people after these
awards once the word is out.
This ensures that the
award availability doesn't disappear while you
wait for the miles you just bought to deposit in your account!
If you're not sure where you'd like to visit or if it isn't certain that the hotel you're looking at will have
award availability for the dates you want to visit then keep your money in your wallet and
wait for a better time.
Here's my dilemma: I can be poised to check ANA
for award availability on United or another Star Alliance partner 356 days in advance of the outbound leg — but if I want to use ANA miles to book a round trip
award, don't I have to
wait to book until the requisite number of days before the return leg, since ANA doesn't allow one ways?
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 adva
Award availability: I booked 2
award tickets with Alaska to Hawaii for the last week of Dec 15 (11 months in adva
award tickets with Alaska to Hawaii
for the last week of Dec 15 (11 months in advance).
To book ABU to JFK on the A380, I checked
award availability on EY»S website on a virtually daily basis
for several months —
waiting for flights in latter part of Jan. to open up.