Originally Posted by
sunil
I think its not very honest when WN displays no availability for standard rewards and forces travellers to exchange std. rewards to freedom. Then 10 days before the flight suddenly a whole buch of std. rewards appear that make the exchange seem futile and wasteful.
I agree, although I can see the problem this would present to SWA.
If one had 2 awards ready to expire, one could combine them into a freedom award, let it expire, pay $50 to extend it, then exchange back to 2 standards.
Of course, no one here would even think of that
