Originally Posted by
RandomBaritone
Not sure I follow your post. "Phantom availability" generally means that the UA award website shows seats available, but after you book the flight, the operating carrier refuses to ticket. It's happened to me twice, and it's annoying as hell.
Are you saying instead that you believe the opposite to be true? That TK has *A award availability, but "UA agents cannot see those seats"?
If so, it may just be that UA hasn't loaded the inventory yet. I know there's tons of TK award availability for 2016 becoming available, so it may also just be the dates you've chosen.
http://thepointsguy.com/2015/10/turk...lability-2016/
The United website and mobile app show availability but when you try to get to the purchasing screen, it gives an error... And UA agents are saying its not available at all in their system... May be TK is blocking some seats for United members as the same flight is available on Ana