JetBlue TrueBlue - TrueBlue Award Change? (Blackout on Awards?)

I've been flying Jetblue for business for a long time. It's a long story, but the short version of it is a) they fly frequently where I do business; b) I have flown over 1MM on AA and the combo of everyone being Platinum these days (good luck on upgrades) and the quitely-readded-rows of seats (laughable seating for a 6 footer with a laptop) was enough.

Anyway, I rack up TrueBlue Awards all the time - I think I've flow 6 trips free at this point, given another or two away. That said, I just went to book a trip recently and feel like I noticed a change in the policy. I never remember being blocked out of a flight - if there were seats than I had a drop down menu options of credit card, JetBlue Credit or TrueBlue Pass. Not it appears as though, they operate like most carriers - they have a limited number of seats available for TrueBlue Awards.

Can others confirm that this is a change in policy? (It would be so typical of an airline to slip this in with no announcement).

Indeed, reward seats are capacity controlled. It has been a few years now at least that things have been this way.

It's always been capacity controlled - you must have just gotten really lucky in the past :)

Also, I've never seen it as an option on the payment page to use a TrueBlue Pass. They only started allowing TrueBlue awards to be redeemed online fairly recently (year or two), and I'm pretty sure you've always had to go to the seperate page to book it via an award.