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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
Exactly this. LM may offer the ability to fly LH F Usa-FRA-Asia for 90k miles one way compared to UA's award chart offering the same for 115k, but if you can't book it, where's the saving? A couple months ago UA was showing wide open availability for the above routing, every day from 14 days prior to departure. LM had one day, only to FRA, and had to be booked via a screenshot and a three day wait for them to call to take payment.
Good to know, this is never really addressed on the blogs. I've seen some of them mention DIFFERENT availability, but not like non-existent availability. I've only ever really searched once or twice with AV and didn't come up with much, but I figured it was cuz I didn't search leg by leg. They also mention not buying miles on spec, which is what I was thinking of doing, so that's on me, but they don't usually reference availability, they reference the possibility for devals.
Are there any airlines where the availability is BETTER than others? I would assume AV, but like how about CM, is UA pretty reliable? If nothing else I'd like to be able to fly from CAN-COL/SA without being encumbered by Air Canada's fees and their inability to show Avianca availability.