I'm looking to book a J ticket on JAL JFK - HND for late August next year. Based on my reading of the JAL award table, a one way on that route should be priced starting at 55k points. I've been checking for a couple days now availability released for 360 days out on that route, just to get a sense of how competitive those fares are. From what I can tell (I've been checking at 11am ET sharp) it doesn't look like the 55k point awards are actually available. The best I'm seeing is 75k awards, but not infrequently 100k - 110k prices. I'm assuming the 55k awards aren't getting snatched up immediately (maybe I'm wrong!), so are the "Saver" fares not being loaded into the system or am I fundamentally misunderstanding something?

Thanks!