With American AAdvantage devaluing its award chart March 22 there’s a ton of last minute requests for space.
For quite some time American has been really really tough with award space on their own international flights. However American has been going to lengths to improve their premium cabin award availability. At the end of last year American finally opened pretty good award space on their new Sydney flight. I covered the floodgates opening for award space on London routes. And how they opened up China flying. That was just the start. And they opened up space to Auckland, too.
It seems though that right as the window is about to close to book at current prices, American has shut the window on availability for many of its own flights.