Originally Posted by ecaarch
Delete the words "will to" and you've got it. I'm sure that DL, like any business, budgets what it will spend for various awards or promotions. Demand exceeded budgeted supply of AF/KL awards this summer at DL. Demand did not exceed budgeted supply of AF/KL awards at AZ. That doesn't mean that anything sinister occurred. Should DL budget better next summer? Maybe, but that is a business decision for DL to make.
DL allocates (budgets, if you will) a certain number of award seats on each of its own flights. Every major carrier does this. Sometimes that allocation gets exhausted. It happens. Not everybody that wants F seats to HNL over Memorial Day weekend is gonna get them. But here's a news flash for you - not everybody that wants award seats on any major carrier is gonna get want they want 100% of the time.
DL exhausted its
will to budget for awards on AF-KL. That much is now certain -- at least to me. It was not a seat limitation, it was a financial austerity measure. Even CO was not as "austere" as DL in this regard (and CO is no true friend of frequent flyers).
