Originally Posted by
Smiley90
I think this might only be "theoretically" true, but practically a real pain in the butt. It's gonna be a real struggle to get ANA to force AC to open up award inventory and I'm not sure that it'll be successful.
Reward inventory isn't required to rebook on an involuntary schedule change/cancellation. Only confirmable space.
Happens all the time for both reward and revenue tickets. Not at all controversial.