Originally Posted by
WillTravel4Food
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.
That is a tough one. My searching was all Business not economy so I do not have a handle on that. It does look like availability for large numbers of Y awards goes away after December 7th so there could be some economy blocking going on. It is strange though because PE and J do not seem to be blocked so it could be just high economy demand but I have rarely seen a hard cutoff like that in Y but not J so I don't know. Good luck.