I have been watching these flights for a few weeks to figure out when they are released. It has been 1day earlier than t-330 days. For example, the Sept. 30 2023 flight was released two days ago, on Thursday Nov.3. The business class seats disappeared by mid-day—which is what I saw consistently. The Economy and Premium Economy seats last longer—much longer in the case of the Economy seats.

The other European partner airlines (British Airways, Icelandair, Aer Lingus) released their award seats for Oct. 2 this morning as well, and I was able to book the one flight to Seattle that still had Business Class seats left with no trouble at all. (British Airways releases award seats to their Executive Club members at t-355, so they usually are all booked before AS mileage members ever get a chance, and there are only the dreaded mixed cabin itineraries left).

The Oct. 2 flight is on the Condor website for booking as a revenue ticket today. But not, apparently as a reward flight in business class with Alaska miles. At least not yet—-the seats are still there at 3 pm Pacific time.

So I was just curious what is going on, since the same-day disappearance of the Condor business class seats on every other “release” day I have looked at for weeks suggests that this has not been an issue before. That was why I got up so early this morning to book those seats!