View Poll Results: Embargo vs limited saaver awards
Has AAdvantage instituted an embargo for saaver awards
26
34.67%
Has AAdvantage limited saaver awards more than past years
49
65.33%
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AA Holiday milesAAver Award Travel Inventory - limits, releases
Mar 22, 2012, 12:57 pm
#346
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: RBKC
Programs: AA EXP and Eurostar Carte Blanche
Posts: 3,851
Exactly the same for me. I've been checking the same routes and dates you described since T-331 (just to be safe), but nothing has been available. I'm hoping that it will open up at some point.
Mar 22, 2012, 4:18 pm
#347
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,934
I used to value AA miles much more than DL miles due to better low-level availability, but I've no longer found that to be the case. In recent months I have found saver availability to be extremely limited. Whether or not this is systematic I can't say, but it has definitely been my personal experience.
And that hasn't changed.
Aug 7, 2012, 11:35 pm
#348
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 1,297
I just managed to book HA flight to HNL on 12/21. Is it likely that AA will release the direct flight such as LAX HNL later as the dates get closeby?
Aug 7, 2012, 11:43 pm
#349
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,861
There's no way for any of us to know that. AA might already have done it and the seats got booked before you started looking.
Aug 8, 2012, 1:48 am
#350
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Bay Area
Programs: WN A-List, AA good-riddance, Safeway Club Card Extraordinaire
Posts: 3,851
I've had good luck with AA releasing HNL-LAX award availability close to the departure date (three trips in the past year, including one booked for 12/21/2011). That's not to say it'll happen again this holiday season, but it's not impossible.