When does Avios availability update?
May 30, 2017, 3:07 am
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When does Avios availability update?
Apologies for the stupid question, but no matter how many times I use my companion voucher I never quite get the timings right of when the availability first gets released! Also does it differ on the BA.com website to what the CS staff see if you phone up? When would first date in 2017 be for availability flying out on May 25th in 2018?
May 30, 2017, 3:15 am
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current seats are being sold up to the 19th May...so another 6 days to go and will be released midnight/1am (can never remember which it is during BST)
Availability 'should' be the same on the phone and online (although it has been known to differ with some non-BA flights)
Availability 'should' be the same on the phone and online (although it has been known to differ with some non-BA flights)
May 30, 2017, 3:20 am
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Perfect, thanks, so one full year + 6 days.
What is the best tactics, to book the outward flight and then add the return flight later? I've only ever booked them all at the same time before, but seems 1st class availability is a lot lower than recent years, even to places like NYC which used to be easy to snag.
What is the best tactics, to book the outward flight and then add the return flight later? I've only ever booked them all at the same time before, but seems 1st class availability is a lot lower than recent years, even to places like NYC which used to be easy to snag.
May 30, 2017, 5:14 am
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To be precise, the last time that I calculated this I discovered that BA sells 355 days of flights at any one time, including today. So it could be said that at any particular time you can book for that same day and 354 future days.
May 30, 2017, 5:15 am
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Hi Richardc77 have a really good read through the Q&As here - there's probably a load more you haven't considered - which will be answered excellently by this thread
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...cussion-7.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...cussion-7.html
May 30, 2017, 5:26 am
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You mention First availability - BA commits to releasing two business and four economy seats at T-355 on every flight, but there's no commitment to offering any First seats.
So - if they appear, great - grab them. If not, keep looking. When looking for seats on a particular route, it can be useful to do a dummy search for what has been made available in the preceding days to see if there's any discernable pattern to the release.
So - if they appear, great - grab them. If not, keep looking. When looking for seats on a particular route, it can be useful to do a dummy search for what has been made available in the preceding days to see if there's any discernable pattern to the release.
