As I wrote at the Award Center section of
The Unofficial United Help Desk:
All Mileage Plus Saver Awards are subject to Capacity Control. This means that United's sophisticated Yield Management systems control how many, if any, Saver Award seats are available on any given flight.
The situation of no
Saver capacity controlled award seats being available the moment a flight goes on sale is nothing new and is often the norm. Until the Yield Management system gets some sales booked and some time passes so that it can make it's first "assesment" of the flight, they often hold back all awards seats on flights early out. And yes, many of United's most popular flights might
never have advance Saver space allocated to them.
Patience is your only option when dealing with a Saver Award. If you find you don't have any patience or time to play the Saver game, then an unrestricted capcity control-free
Standard award may be your only viable option.
[This message has been edited by PremEx (edited 11-21-2000).]