Originally Posted by
shustedm
I’ve been monitoring almost daily for past 8 months for a flight from Istanbul to USA for any saver seats and nothing has opened. The flight is in less than 2 months and almost every seat in business class is open. Will turkish release any J award space or no?
A quick look suggests they have released some for closer in flights. To me it looks like the tap starts turning on about a month out.
Check here and select show flights to North America from the drop-down box:
https://seats.aero/lifemiles/departing/IST
You want to look for green colored "Business Available" icons (non-stop). You can see quite a few dates within the next month to different US destinations.