Originally Posted by
intuition
PEK, BTW, is the exceptional route. They almost never release any upgrade seats at all, and like SPBanker reported many times, there almost never are any op-ups either. It cleraly is the route where they manage to sell the J cabin.
There must be more businessmen and businewomen travelling to PEK than to BKK so more people willing to pay directly for the J cabin.
On another note, they sell PEK or BKK for an amazing price for people not starting in HEL. I booked last week a LHR-HEL-PEK-HEL-LHR in the J cabin for GBP 1100 for my wife so that she can join me on a business trip to PEK. In this instance, BA wanted GBP 2300 for Premium Economy. On the inbound she does have to spend one night in HEL. But with a very cheap rate at the Hilton at the airport and the chance to see some friends from graduate school, this is an amazing deal. BKK would have been GBP 1200.