Originally Posted by
mikeyfly
Thanks Paralytic - it's mid April so ages away. Makes sense, however in July grabbed outbound - Avios upgrade and they took those immediately. I shall wait and see...! Two legs out of four in F to SYD so far, waiting for the last two
It sounds like you booked the outbound first, and then added the return. In which case, its likely that your request has gone into a back-office queue to be fully processed and I believe they do those in departure date order.
Cross your fingers, but expect the Avios to be taken by early next year.