Originally Posted by
iahphx
The month of November 2012 is now loaded in the schedule and you can see the exact same pattern. It's easy to spot if you pull up a "boring" high-frequency, short-haul market like AUS-DFW or STL-ORD that normally has award availability on almost any day. Thanksgiving this year is November 22 and, it appears to me, that there are no coach saver seats being offered from November 14 through November 26 -- meaning you aren't going to be getting to grandma's house for turkey on a saver ticket.
And yet, in one minute, I found saver coach availability LAX-DFW on Nov 14, contrary to your OP. And as you later clarified, on Thanksgiving day itself as well.
And, of course, plentiful saver F award seats for every day of the month except for 11/14, 11/15, 11/21 and 11/25.
Is it possible that with over 60 million AAdvantage members, and just 3400 combined mainline and Eagle flights daily, that the prime holiday saver coach seats were snapped up by someone else the moment they became available? Or is that not a possibility?
For example, if each flight did have one or two saver coach seats the moment the flights were loaded, is it not possible that of the tens of millions of AAdvantage members, someone requested and received the scarce seats? Or do we have confirmation of the speculative thread title?