Using Amex 2-4-1 Long way in advance
Dec 28, 2014, 1:50 am
#16
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Ipswich
Posts: 7,543
355 is the earliest seats can be released. It doesn't mean seats will be released on that day. You're aiming for a very popular route. You just have to keep checking and hoping. Maybe no seats will ever be released for that day. Or they'll wait until a few days before, or a few weeks before, or.... etc.
Have you been tracking the route? Have seats been available on earlier dates? Have you looked at other airports in the area?
Have you been tracking the route? Have seats been available on earlier dates? Have you looked at other airports in the area?
Dec 28, 2014, 2:14 am
#17
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
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I've always been intrigued when I see the following pop up when looking at a date on the edge of the 355 days:
Has anyone ever called and got a redemption more than 355 days or indeed "by more than one year ahead" by calling BAEC?
The web site can only accept bookings up to 355 days in advance. Please contact your Executive Club Service Centre if you need to book for more than one year ahead.
Dec 28, 2014, 3:49 am
#18
Join Date: May 2011
Programs: BA Gold
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Dec 28, 2014, 5:29 am
#19
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Here today, gone tomorrow
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I think you'll be lucky to get that route so close to Christmas - BA expects to be able to sell the flights to people going home for Christmas.
I've been keeping an eye on that route myself. We're coming back from Sydney in late November and grabbed what was available - which was WT+ from SIN (and first SYD to SIN). CW wasn't available for either leg. However tracking availability for pre Christmas 2014 in the two weeks or so before the flight date, there seemed to be a smattering of seats made available in the higher classes, though you needed to be quick off the mark as they went quickly, not surprisingly.
If WT or WT+ are available, if I were you I'd take that unless you really are not prepared to fly in those classes if you have to, and hope something turns up within a few days of departure.
I've been keeping an eye on that route myself. We're coming back from Sydney in late November and grabbed what was available - which was WT+ from SIN (and first SYD to SIN). CW wasn't available for either leg. However tracking availability for pre Christmas 2014 in the two weeks or so before the flight date, there seemed to be a smattering of seats made available in the higher classes, though you needed to be quick off the mark as they went quickly, not surprisingly.
If WT or WT+ are available, if I were you I'd take that unless you really are not prepared to fly in those classes if you have to, and hope something turns up within a few days of departure.
Dec 28, 2014, 6:07 am
#20
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Looks like there are at least nine seats available in CW the previous day and four in F the day before that, which really surprises me. I'd book one of those and hope for the best.
Dec 28, 2014, 7:21 am
#21
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Can you state the dates and routes you found please?
Thanks.
Dec 28, 2014, 8:21 am
#22
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Dec 28, 2014, 9:28 am
#23
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