<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by readyalready:
Whichever it is. Its 2:45am Mountain time and I have been calling UA every 15-20 minutes to book FF seats from DEN-OGG for next March. When I finally got through after the 28th was in the system, there was only availability for 3 seats on two different flights/connections. There were 6 seats on later flights a few days earlier, only 3 seats the day before. My question is if anyone has a sense of the number of seats released, if I somehow missed the seats in the 15 minutes between calls or if they probably only released 3 seats per flight this far out. And also if you have a feeling on when they might release more seats (we need 6 total). This wasn't supposed to be this difficult... </font>
The 330 day deadline has nothing to do with Mileage Plus award availability -- it is rather the maximum look ahead time for UA's res system, for any kind of seat, free or paid. Therefore while it is totally impossible to book earlier than that, that's quite a different statement from saying that UA provides _any_ award availability at that first possible time. In short, they usually do not,most especially on Hawaii and int'l C and F seats. So, if you find this in any way good news, you did not lose out to someone else poised by the phone at the same instant, most likely. And finally, not to be unkind, but YES, it is supposed to be this difficult. You're trying to get 6 award seats to Hawaii in the winter on the same flight. That it an extraordinary task, and you're going to have to face up to the fact you may well not succeed. Consider buying one or two and upgrading them (if the free ones are in F), for example.
[This message has been edited by Starman (edited 05-01-2002).]