Originally Posted by
Bkboom123
If you don’t mind me asking, what are the flight times? Call me a simpleton, but I don’t exactly think it’s a great value to have a 6am flight to LAX on the way out and a red eye on the way back.
It’s well documented that we get absolutely screwed on price in ATL, but I find it near impossible to utilize the companion pass effectively. I travel weekly for work, so it’s very difficult to book a flight 90-days out or whatever it is that’s required to utilize a companion pass.
There's no such 90-day requirement (you are thinking about low-level D1 Skymiles awards). Coach requires LUTXV availability with L fares typically requiring a 7 day advance purchase (if you want cheaper fares, the cheapest V fares generally require a 21-day advance purchase). FC requires IZ availability. While cheapest Z fares generally require a 21-day advance purchase, there are usually published I fares with no advance purchase requirement. Availability has more to do with popularity of flights (and hence DL limiting lower fare bucket inventory availability on the popular flights) than advance purchase. Midweek and Saturday flights will generally be less popular than other days, but that kind of goes out the window around holiday periods.