Remember AC is not offering reward seats to Hawaii this summer. It turns out the opposite is the case the US.

In today's Wall Street Journal they state that because load factors are down .1% from a year ago this is 17,000 empty seats a day. And that a lot of these are being converted to reward seats. "They manage them the same way they do airfare sales, " says Randy Peterson.

So it sounds like the other guys have seats to Hawaii and elsewhere but not AC!

The airlines have also dropped fares so that it is a better deal to pay cash in a lot of cases than to use reward certificates.