My wife and I will be visiting her family in Turkey in late August. We have our outbound flights booked, BOS to IST direct on Turkish. While looking for the return leg I noticed there was no award availability for IST to BOS direct for almost the entire month of September.
We thought perhaps taking some time out of the Turkey trip to go to Portugal (Lisbon and Porto) would be a way around this, and also a fun trip. However, the same problem is occurring, no award availability on the direct flight from IST to Lisbon during the first week of September as well as no award availability for Lisbon to Boston direct on TAP around September 8th, and for pretty much all of September.
Just wondering if I'm simply looking for award space too late or there is something wrong with what United/ANA is showing me for award space. We have always booked these trips around this time or later, and have not had problems finding direct flights back to Boston.
We thought perhaps taking some time out of the Turkey trip to go to Portugal (Lisbon and Porto) would be a way around this, and also a fun trip. However, the same problem is occurring, no award availability on the direct flight from IST to Lisbon during the first week of September as well as no award availability for Lisbon to Boston direct on TAP around September 8th, and for pretty much all of September.
Just wondering if I'm simply looking for award space too late or there is something wrong with what United/ANA is showing me for award space. We have always booked these trips around this time or later, and have not had problems finding direct flights back to Boston.