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AIR MILES purchases the lowest category of WS seat on flights, so the agent is correct that once this batch of seats is gone, either having been sold to AM or regular customers, there are unlikely to be any further seats opened up. And July is peak summer travel season, so award seats as well as cheap revenue seats go quickly and well in advance.
Best way to determine if award seats will be available is to go to the regular WS booking site and enter the route and dates you're interested in. You will then see what price category seats are still available, and if there are seats in the lowest price category, then you can call AMs to book an award. If only high priced seats show, then those flights are pretty much off limits to AM,
Thanks for the reply. I'm missing something though. The WS booking site appears to just show one fare at a time. If the travel date is further in the future than the current window for fare sales (currently to around the end of May) then the fare for YOW-YQQ is the same (slight differences based on the day of the week) whether the travel dates are in July, September or November. That is the November flight will have a reduced fare at some time closer to departure but how would one get anything less than the 'regular' fare for a flight on the WS booking site that is more than a few months out?
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