Originally Posted by AA Flyer

Your thoughts. This morning, around 2 a.m (EST). I received multiple alerts (7) for Mile saver availability (U - biz class to /from Europe) for multiple flights on AA, on August 9th and August 26th. (my wife and I have flights but we are trying to get, better connections/ itineraries.)

I called American at 5:30 a.m. EST, to try to switch a current reservation, from Anytime to Milesaver (U.) I was told U was not available. I checked with EF, and sure shooting none of the alerts I received had any U availability.

So my question: is it possible that all those flights and all those mile saver award tickets (about 10 "U" were available according to the notices I got) we're taken by customers between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.? I suppose it's possible but since I got alerts, on 7 different flights, and none were available at 5:30 a.m. I thought I put this out there for discussion.

Thanks for any insights you might have.

Originally Posted by aztimm

I had a C alert set up for a few months, for DFW-AMS, for Sep travel. So long that I had forgotten about it, until I got an alert this morning. Of course by the time I looked, the seat was gone.


Similar to SeeBuyFly's experience... when I was actively seeking biz (or F) award space to Australia a few months ago, I had a bunch of awards set. But I was also actively running a bunch of queries. One morning I found 2 biz seats on SFO-MEL, went to the AA site and snagged them. About an hour later I got an alert, but they were gone by then, as I had taken them