Originally Posted by
anabolism
I'd like to know, since I'm running into this as well.
I use the BA, AsiaMiles, and QF sites to check availability. BA is hard to use, but I find AsiaMiles even worse.
My experience is that when AsiaMiles show availability but it says "seats are limited" (and the flight has a red bar which indicates limited availability) that means there is 1 seat left and for sure they do not give it out partners. I have less than a 10% success rate for these flights. Conversely, when this message does not show up on the flight selections I have a greater than 90% success rate in booking my desired flight.