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As a courtesy they (a Supervisor) provided me an upgrade on Delta metal but couldn't offer it on my return flight since there were none available. It's cost me 25,000 for Business Class for the first leg of the journey. She said that all the Business Class seats were full on the return for the dates I was traveling.

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Can you clarify what you mean by "provided me an upgrade on Delta metal"? Was it on a route that both DL & AF operate so they could just move you to the DL metal flight, or did the Supervisor provide you with a different routing?

FWIW, I'm in the same boat--booked AF W months ago assuming that, as has always happened in the past, O would open up closer to departure date. My route is LAX-CDG, so no DL metal, unless DL is willing to change it to a connecting flight (plenty of Z availability via SLC).

I've read other threads that O has become signficantly harder to find. But just last week I booked 3 J award seats on AF for July 2013. I noticed that whereas it used to be AF's 343s and 380s had availability, now it seemed only the 77Ws had availability (and as we'll be traveling with a 2 year old next summer, I actually wanted the 3 J seats in the middle together anyway).