Originally Posted by
ednpub
My question illustrates just how new I am to this and that I really was confused. I thought that the fare codes listed on the Availability tab could in fact be compared to the Award Availability (especially to help determine the number of award seats available). Thanks for taking the time to respond.
The question you asked is not really EK-specific (in the sense of "how do paid fare classes relate to award fare classes"). You're probably better off taking time to researching in the EK forum (or in any of your favorite FFP forums) which fare classes are for awards and which are for paid tickets. Once you get that, EK familiars can probably give you info on likely relationships (ex. if lowest economy fare is 7, then there's probably 5 Y awards available--I'm not familiar with EK, so take this as an example and nothing more).