Funny story last night actually.

My cousin called for some advice on how he should book his SEA - Bos RT. for three people.

He's going to use a $50 comp fare for 2 then he's stuck with either paying full fare for another ticket or using miles. I said I would use the miles. Then he goes online and tries to book a saver on that flight.

Now I know that there was only 4 seats sold on 1 of the flights. It was possible that all 4 seats sold were in fact savers though. So he can't find a saver award anywhere on AS but there was 40000 mile peak awards available. IMO not worth it. Come to find out he could also book a saver F/C award for the same 40,000 miles. Let me think what I would do. Anyways they are traveling with a child so I said if you are going to book using F/C saver just book your F/C seat and whenever the person who is suppose to sit between your wife and you just tell them it's there lucky day. Tell them if you give them the seat they were suppose to sit in to their daughter then there is a F/C seat waiting for them up in F/C. After we laughed about how the lucky that person would be and have a story to tell when they got home he decided to use the 15,000 mile 1/2 price ticket instead...Not the best choice in my book. I would rather pay full and keep my miles for the elusive coach saver ticket.