Thank you all for your replies. I feel better now.
Our tickets are full fare, no awards.
. I've got miles of miles (over 700,000 Cont miles), and was looking forward to using them for these flights. I was unable to find *any* seats on the flights we wanted using rewards. The only reward seats were on days we couldn't fly (we had to time our trip to match our son's finishing Uni).
Here's to clear skies!