Originally Posted by
qazw1
I redeemed one of those plan ahead awards when my points was about to expire. Had difficulty ever finding a flight for a city I want to fly to. End up losing the award.
Once the certificate is issued you then have one year to turn it into a ticket.
Originally Posted by
mvoight
The award availability should be similar to Aadvantage "saver" availability, but flights I could book online for saver were not available for BX awards when I called.
It shouldn't be similiar; it should be the same. Business ExtrAA awards, the restricted ones, are supposed to pull from T/Z inventory (I forget what class business class saver awards book in? U?) I'd push back HARD if you are seeing T/Z availability for an AAdvantage award but Business ExtrAA can't book it. That should not be the case.
If it is - does this workaround work? Put T class booking on hold using AAdvantage award search but do not ticket. Then call Meeting Services and have them look up the PNR and apply BX cert instead of AAdv miles to the already created PNR?