Originally Posted by
Raralith
Woah, I didn't know they could open up availability? I've got the same flight in 02/2023. Did you just ask nicely? Or they did it by themselves?
I can't say for sure that's what happened, just that I cleared on an additional segment that I didn't expect to. Who knows, maybe it opened up since I last checked. There's discussion of inventory availability here:
Expanded / additional MileSAAver award & upgrade availability for EXP (consolidated)