This account is a bit tough to follow but bear with me. Earlier this year I booked 2 ATL-HNL award flights on DL. At 11:59 p.m. ET I had a screen showing my desired date (331 days and 30 seconds away) as of out of range. At 12:00 midnight I clicked refresh and every one of Delta's flights for my date were available as SkySaver . This was actually my return flight as I had gotten lucky and in the same session found SkySaver availability during my ideal departure range. Just in case I didn't get so lucky I also put a hold on two tickets the day my original departure date was first bookable, which Delta does a courtesy for up to 14 days, that simply expired when I didn't call back the next day to confirm my departure. The beauty of what I did by finding SkySaver availability on a departure flight 4 days earlier than I originally reserved, in addition to the 1000 bonus miles per ticket that I received for booking online, was that I got to make my trip duration 18 days-4 days longer than the maximum using the 2 week hold method (Let's face it 14 days in Hawaii over Christmas just isn't enough ).