Just spent a very frustrating afternoon trying to find ANY award ticket from CLT to NCE, MXP, FCO, or VCE on any date departing from mid-June to mid-July and returning any date from mid-July to mid-August, and always got the "We're sorry, there are no flights matching your request." I tried multiple browsers (Safari & Firefox) on both my laptop and desktop.

Now, I know I am very late booking this (my wife has let me know it), but I figured SOMETHING had to be available...I'm not talking about just not finding any of the lowest tiers, I am talking about NO tiers being available, including business...

So I tried every date in December and January...still no dice!

Called the magic number, and the agent had multiple days of availability (whew!), and - before I booked it - we ran an experiment where I searched for the days he listed as being available....

"We're sorry, there are no flights matching your request."

Infuriating, yet - somehow - strangely affirming....