You ' re flying later in December . that means around Christmas . It means high fares and low award availability because everyone is flying at the same time . If you can find availability on points , then book it ! It ' s probably because someone else cancelled . I wrote an article on booking holiday travel using points here inphoenixonpoints <| sep |> If you know any python here ' s a script to create onebombblobmasterzipbomb . py <| sep |> Any idea on how long it takes our Charge Points to populate ? I see the purchased Zen on my account , but haven ' t gotten the points yet . <| sep |> In a good way it does but boy , how do you even come up with a marketing campaign like that i don ' t even know ! But America ' s a country that turned Superheroes into erotic soap operas so i can imagine how did japanese people look at us western people . I live in Italy by the way . Japan , though , thinks that its successor does really stink .