Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Days of finding Saver awards for Polaris must be long long gone...
In the old days, one could almost count on award seats opening up a day or two before a flight, including long haul Business Class seats
THere would always be a small number of seats and it would seem that United would start offering redemptions for those seats just to fill the cabin
I notice today non-stop IAH-EZE or IAH-GIG are simply full price or not available at all, or, for a high redemption level of miles.
Got me thinking - suppose I am in a major hub city - IAH/EWR/SFO/ORD - and have 80,000 points ready to redeem and a long weekend.
Is there a way to check what inventory might be fire sale status?
Or, do i need to do this city pair by city pair until I find one?