Originally Posted by
intuition
Who on earth (outside FT) tries to get an award with 24h notice?!
I guess it's not that uncommon. Actually it seems that many airlines release last-minute award seats, especially in F where seats might otherwise not be available. At least LH and SQ come to mind from reading blogs. And I guess AY does, too. I'm flying to LPA next week (on an award booked months ago) and just out of curiosity I checked availability for my flight online this morning. It showed X5 for both HEL-LPA flights on that day. I bet they didn't open 5 award seats on those flights originally.
Also, on Thursday I was thinking about joining some friends on a Stockholm cruise this weekend. My idea was to fly to ARN today and sail back with them since work prevented me from joining them from HEL on Friday. In the end, I didn't go, but there was X availability on three flights HEL-ARN today. In the meanwhile, DY wanted almost €200 for a one-way.