Originally Posted by
martin33
It's also, sadly, now hypothetical since they raised the MileSaaver F award to 50K.
Only AA and UA currently offer the "real thing" last seat-for-sale redemption at similar (ie double) mileage levels. CO only allows it for elites. DL reintroduced it at a yet-higher third pricing level. US does not offer it at all.
Intersting. I had no idea that most other airlines don't offer it the way that AA and UA do. If you ask me, doing the AAnytime award for 50k miles on a last minute flight with something like Y-1 availbility is a hell of a value for the miles, provided that you absolutely have to be on that flight. Given that the cabin is usually already overbooked when it's showing something like Y-1, the airline is already accepting the fact that they'll likely have to VDB and give a voucher to an additional pax for that last seat sold.