Originally Posted by
channa
I've redeemed Saver awards 1 day prior to departure. Why is that essentially impossible on a legacy carrier?
I think most carriers' inventory management systems are sophisticated enough to dump award seats close in if flights are not going to fill. That's pretty basic these days.
I find that they release them after the Free tkting period has ended or its now 20 days to the flight date so they will start dinging us with the Fees as it gets closer the fee goes up. Like at 22 days out they really thought they sell out the pretty empty plane while now at 20 days out they release the seats feeling they wont sell them.