Originally Posted by
peteropny
PLEASE READ THESE FAQs - MOST OF THE COMMON QUESTIONS WILL PROBABLY BE ANSWERED HERE
Are there capacity controls on FFN awards? FFN awards are capacity controlled awards. In general, if you know you want to use one, make an award booking now, and later you can switch your award from points to an FFN award. Elite members especially can usually book an award stay even if they don't have the required number of points in their account. In the past, FFN award inventory was the same as point award inventory. However, this is the first round after the change in April 2009 which eliminated capacity control for awards where if a basic category room is available for revenue booking, it is available for award redemption. As such, we’re not sure if FFN inventory remains exactly the same as point award inventory.
I'm not sure if I agree with the above interpretation of the T&Cs, nor with LIH Prem's interpretation in the other (now-closed) thread:
Originally Posted by LIH Prem
FFN awards are capacity controlled. I know you were referring to regular awards, but this thread is about a promo that includes FFN awards.
Yes, FFN's certainly WERE capacity controlled in all past FFN promo prior to the April 2nd, 2009 elimination of capacity controls. However GP Concierge's answer directly out of the FAQs she provided in Post #1 above seem to say otherwise:
Originally Posted by
Gold Passport Concierge
10. Could I make a reservation now using points and then amend the reservation to a FFN down the road?
Yes.
If you can make a
non-capacity controlled award reservation in advance using points and convert that to an FFN reservation, then obviously it is
NOT capacity controlled, correct? Or am I missing something obvious here that other's seem to see?
I don't think there's any question that these are not capacity controlled based on GP Concierge's FAQ answer, unless she was incorrect when writing the FAQs.