Interesting Last Minute Flight Rewards rules for Ultimate seats (lowest points required)
At 48 hours before departure: All unsold Economy seats (except 5) will be available as an Ultimate reward
This meant for anyone to score a single Ultimate reward seat in a regional route (Saab 340 capacity 36) you must have at least 6 unsold seats or 17% unsold seats.
This may only happen on non peak schedule flights, since the usual early morning late evening flights are rarely that empty, unless they are on unpopular mid week routes (and trust me, if they are not turning a dime, they will either cut frequency or the entire schedule of the route)
