Originally Posted by
big_mac
There is no award availability.
Scotland play a Euro qualifying game in Georgia on Friday evening (4th Sep.), possibly some of those fans returning? (And a home game v Germany on Monday, possibly also those fans arriving)
It's also the end of the English school holidays, so traditionally a busy time.
It would have been even worse, but they changed the dates of the Festival in 2015 - it should have finished that weekend, but actually, it's finishing the previous week.
However, it's also possible the algorithms the booking engine uses just recognises the first weekend of the September (the traditional last weekend of the Festival for years) as peak time and block out reward availability automatically. And also, domestic availability is really poor on BA months out
