Originally Posted by
skimthetrees
Use another program to check availability coming up just outside the window to determine whether you have a chance at window open or not (if there are no seats available today for a date that AS opens tomorrow then come tomorrow they probably are not going to be available either. Right now I see SFO-HND has 6J available (checking on BA) for 12/18/23. Today 1/19 AS can book through 12/16/23 so in two more days 12/18 will become available if no one takes them. If you want to have a chance at those you will need to be booking early in the morning and use the reverse round-trip trick, otherwise -- No Soup For You
We're looking for a total of seven award seats, which will put us in Y - much to my dismay but quite acceptable to my wife who doesn't share the same priorities. J, for cost in miles and availability, is definitely out of the picture. So I checked the AA and BA sites and found the same availability situation as on AS. Availability up to 7 December, then nothing. We are looking specifically SEA-Osaka, KIX or ITM will work. I was expecting seats to become available 1/20 or 1/21. Right now it doesn't look like that's going to happen. I'll keep looking and hope for the best. Right now it's looking like we might have to go with Korean on the outbound.