Well, it was looking like a unanimous opinion until JessicaB shared her experience! I will give it some thought. I've had a play around with ExpertFlyer today. I'll keep monitoring what has been allocated and fare buckets. I don't think our outbound is tight yet.

My main concern was/is the downgrade prospect, over the "not sitting together" one! If it comes to it, although it would be nice to share the experience, I think we can bear to sit apart for 10 hours when we will have 7 days of each other coming up!

Interesting insights from firstlight , I had no idea people would be making "maybe" bookings, or even, as you mention duplicate Avios and BAH/cash bookings on the same flight! Mind you, nothing should surprise me with some of the complex affairs on here!

Anyway, still a lot of months for things to change in many ways, vaccine passports, green lists, FCO advice etc to tackle first and also bigger things in life to worry about.