Put Award Travel on Hold

When booking award travel it is often a good idea to put your itinerary on hold before actually spending your hard won airline miles.  Unfortunately, not all airlines are equal in how this works or what they allow. For example, American Airlines allows you to put your itinerary on hold for 5 days, whereas British Airways doesn't allow a hold at all.  Read this post to get the full scoop.
http://travelsort.com/blog/comparing-airline-award-ticket-hold-policies