<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PointsGalore:
I recently learned via a Northwest thread that NW has a website that quickly helps one to find dates with available award seats. Does anyone know if any other airlines have a similar website?</font>
British Airways lets you see award availability on a monthly calendar (tho if you're only interested in particular times of day you have to click through beyond that). Of course, their whole program and website is scheduled to change Tuesday, so I can't say how it'll look after that, but hopefully at least as useful.
Southwest Airlines awards are good on "the last seat" available on any flight, except for a small number of blackout dates a year, so while there's no "calendar" approach to looking up awards, if you're booking more than a few days in advance (and you can book the same awards essentially "walkup") there's very little chance that all flights are fully booked on a given day, and even fairly little chance that your preferred flight is fully booked, so usually a quick check of the regular website for the day you want confirms that you can get an award seat no problem. (Exception: Southwest Airlines can give you award seats to Dallas, but can't fly you paid to there from faraway states like Florida, due to Wright Amendment limitaitons. So if you want to use an award to Dallas, you have to inquire about THAT by phone.)