Originally Posted by
moulder3
12,000 United miles = 1/2 a free roundtrip award ticket (especially for a 1K member, as United holds extra 25,000 roundtrip award seats just for them)
There is a separate inventory bucket for 1Ks. That does
not mean that there are extra award seats held for 1Ks.
Frequently the 1K bucket has the same number of seats available as the regular/saver bucket, and when the latter is zero'd out, it's not uncommon for the 1K inventory to be zero'd out as well.