final November I wrote approximately how American seemed to no longer be making final minute first class award seats available on their A321 flights between New York and Los Angeles/San Francisco. This was real even when cabins were almost totally empty just hours before the flight. That's quite unfortunate,given that American offers a great tough product in the market, with reverse herringbone seats.
The trend seemed a bit backwards to me, and given that American still had some award availability in advance. You'd judge airlines would be most likely to accomplish first class award seats available close to departure,since those seats would otherwise go unsold, and may even go out empty.
Of course airlines don't want to accomplish that space available too predictably, or else it could be cutting into their yields,given that customers may close up not paying for seats whether they know they can redeem miles for them final minute (though I'm guessing that represents a very small percentage of customers).
I've noted lately how American seems to be making a genuine effort to increasing premium cabin upgrade & award space, which is much appreciated. We've seen some instances where there were huge amounts of first & business class award space, and but beyond that they seem to be making an all around fair amount of space available.
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Source: boardingarea.com