Originally Posted by
Edgerfly
If you put award travel on hold on United.com using your credit card, and then do not complete the booking, or cancel the hold, is that availability released back out right away? Or does it take time for them to put it back out on the award market?
They may release it right away. They may wait until rollover to the next day. Or week. Or never. There had been, up to now, no discernible algorithm for when it gets released back into the wild or not.