Originally Posted by
AZjohns
I'm pretty sure there has to be saver award space on all legs to get it (OW). Now, you can have saver economy on one leg and saver First/business on another (will charge you saver First/business rate) but both need to be saver.
You can do it this way. I recently had success changing my standard award to saver by downgrading one of the legs from F to Y. That was at about 48 hours out. Then, at 24 hours out, I was able to switch the Y back to F.
Just keep checking. A lot opens up in those few days before the flight.