jordant

I am trying to book an economy class award fare from Delhi to SFO. It was showing plenty of availability until yesterday but today it shows that there is no availability. I tried to change the dates, but it shows no availability for any day for next 6 months. I am shocked that they are all sold out overnight. Even Business class shows no availability for next 6 months.

Does anyone know if it's some kind of glitch or did they stop issuing award tickets?

Thanks.

Guy Betsy

Think there're very limited seats available and there are many people willing to pay for their tickets. It could also be that one sector of your married segment is sold out of award seat, the connecting flight will also show zero availability.

Try checking segment by segment and if both segments showing availability but none as a thru booking then it could be TK systems blocking and you might need to call in.

SK AAR

If you are sure that you actually saw available award seats, I suggest you give it a few days/week to see if it is indeed a IT glitch.

flyerby

If suitable, you may go with another *A carrier such as SQ while still using TK miles.

nwflyboy

I would have to disagree with your rather broad statement that "there are no award tickets" on TK. I just did a cursory search and found plenty of award tickets available. Maybe it's something about your specific search.

That said, I have observed wild swings (between "plentiful" and "absolutely none") of TK award availability on routes before. It seems that one day, somebody presses a button, and everything you're looking for either vanishes entirely (there's just zero availability at any cost), or plentiful availability suddenly appears out of nowhere and is widely available (even at bargain prices). Why? I'm not sure that's a question that can ever be answered, it just happens. Accept it.

Award availability is fickle and unreliable, even if looking back at previous/recent trends that appear to be consistent. It's best to have a Plan B which is acceptable, be flexible and patient, because the switch may always flip back any time (or it may never switch back - no way to know).

erik123

I noticed that some routes are suddenly zeroed out till the end of the schedule - and months later awards are loaded back into the system again. I am not sure what the reasoning is.

haricharan

Seems like Turkish has no award seats from Dec 14-23 at all from usa to ist? even at the non-promo level. Is that normal that they don't offer the higher level mile awards at certain times? Revenue seats are available.

nacho

You are talking about the most travelled season in the whole year! IMO Tk doesn't have award seats during school holidays (e.g. in Denmark we have week 42 and week 7 off and you can see that the prices are much higher during those times and you can't find any promo award tickets for Asia/US). I wouldn't even hold my breath to find anything close to Christmas - the ticket prices ex-Europe to everywhere is insane. Some schools finish a week before Christmas and if they take a few extra days off they can get a few decent weeks off.

ISTFlyer

Yes, pretty normal.
When the demand is high and when they think that they could fill their planes, they block award availability completely.

If there are empty seats, award availability would open maybe a week or two before departure.