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Since we got promoted I've found it easier to get away tickets than home, especially if I want to take my son. Membership puts you in a scramble at 9am to phone up for home tickets, and it's one per member. Away tickets are usually available if it's a) Palace who allocate loads (albeit with restricted view) or b) an evening kick-off the other side of London (from Leicester) - so Bournemouth, Southampton, Brighton, etc.
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I have season tickets and so get all home games. Away tickets are now impossible. Used to have away season tickets and when I first gave them up could get London games easily. Now they go in seconds. The £30 a ticket Scheme is good but has led to huge demand and also to touting. It is depressing to go to places like Bournemouth, as I did a couple of years ago where the away allocation is little more than 1000 and find five people sitting in a row in front of me who, it turns out are from S Africa and this is their first game and they got the tickets off an on line tout.
I generally get my aways through the network of friends and friends of friends in which there is a very strong face value rule.
At home games there is a ticket exchange and so often possible to pick up extras via that should they be needed.
Still loads of touts outside and the touted price indicates that demand outstrips availability.