I decided last night to play around a little looking for award reservations for next year. Last year later in the summer we found standard award availability (35,000 miles) for both HNL and SJU in early February. Ended up going to San Juan for 35,000 each

So I plug in the following - TVC (Traverse City, MI) to the following:

Key West, March - 50,000
Tampa, March - 50,000
New Orleans, March - 50,000
Honolulu, January - 70,000!!!!!

I know Florida is going to run high in March, but the 70,000 for HNL surprised me. And it seemed like last year some of the higher demand cities came in at 37,500 (instead of 25,000), but not 50,000. It appeared there was a trend here.

So, to try something basic and supposedly cheap I plug in TVC-MSP in March - 50,000 miles This is a one hour flight they operate several times a day to their major hub. 50,000 miles 9 months out?!?!?!? We don't cash miles in too often (don't accrue them fast enough to ). Is this a new trend anyone is seeing? Are ANY standard awards available these days?