Originally Posted by skimthetrees

I would not discount the possibility that someone else grabbed the award, especially if it is a popular route. I used another alert service to check for some Asiana awards and I saw a similar pattern. I would get an alert, by the time I got to checking it there were no awards. Then, one day, I was sitting at my PC when the alert came in. I immediately went to verify it on a couple of sites and found that it was real, not phantom, but before I could book, literally about 3 minutes from when I got the alert, someone else had grabbed it and it was gone, and this was for a date a few months out.