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Old Mar 3, 2019 | 12:20 am
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Debonaire
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Programs: Delta Platinum, Hyatt Globalist
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Thanks callmedtop and Happy for all the advice!

Originally Posted by Happy
Personally I found JL near months releases are very decent - far far better than those at the opening of the booking window. There is no need, for now, to book a year out. Thank goodness, as our preferences always are the near months. In this case we did not even think about going to Japan until 8 or 9 days ago when we decided to book a 14 days TPAC cruise from Tokyo to Vancouver from last week of April, so we needed the flight to go over,
Your anecdotes give me a lot of peace of mind. I was afraid that I had missed some sort of systematic cutoff of sorts, and the seats would be gone for good. Sounds like there is just naturally a lot of unpredictable fluctuation due to award space management, which I can live with. Certainly beats making travel plans a whole year ahead.
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