Originally Posted by
testycal
Wanting to try 350 business class upgrading from WT+ on TLV to LHR Jan 9. No availability. Days following have. Cabin is more than half empty. Just keep checking? Any rhyme or reason to availability and chances of additional seat releases? I have no experience in this arena.
It really is impossible to say, for good commercial reasons this is unknowable. If the aircraft isn't so busy that definitely helps on one level, there again I've seen Avios seats available on overbooked services too. There is no firm rule here, and nothing you can do about it other than checking online every UK morning time to see if there are any updates (doing a dummy redemption rather than pressing the UUA button), then call up as soon as you can thereafter if something shows up. I wouldn't take the seat map apparently being empty as a sign of a half-loaded aircraft, plus TLV is notorious for late bookings.