sale and availability

I am looking to book fights for next august. peak time, using mile and my upgrades. I know that there is going to be some availability but I am finding that since the reward sale there has been very few ec and pe flights added in the school holidays. they all seem to be uc.

now when the sale finishes, I may not be too surprised to see that availability changes and more ec and pe flights become available.

your probably right in thinking that.
Afterall, cash paying tickets are worth more to V than flying on a freebie who have spent time, effort & money in collecting miles.

Hi,

Hoping for advice on this too, I have pretty much the same dilemma trying to use some of my airmiles.

Ideally we'd like to fly to San Francisco but on the dates we'd like to go there are no seats available. LA is the same but we could fly to Vegas, it just seems silly to book flights knowing we have to take a 1000 mile round trip during the holiday.

Do more flights generally become available after the sale period? I think I'd rather spend the extra miles and save a massive round trip if possible but if not I'd rather book now to Vegas to guarantee the flight.