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Except I thought with BA, if F / J / W / Y is oversold, then those selected for downgrade, even if alteady allocated themselves their chosen seat when buying ticket nn days ago, can not actually do an OLCI ?
As such it is not a race in F to be avoid being the last to OLCI, so as to not be the flier being bumped from F. I suspect even if OPs friend had a)chose seat 3 months ago b)tried to OLCI 24hrs ahead of this flight, he would have been already chosen as non-status, early lower price purchase, with exception of awards or 241's and thus not have been able to OLCI?
Whilst other reasons exist for being blocked from performing OLCI, on a soldout flight it usually means one is getting bumped down a class.