Does BA release Avios seats before a trip?
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2019
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Does BA release Avios seats before a trip?
I am flying from London to Chicago on BA 0297 on May 26th. I was told there are no current Avios seats available in Business, I have a premium economy seat.
My question is does BA release seats for upgrade with points before the trip?
My question is does BA release seats for upgrade with points before the trip?
#3
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It does sometimes and not other times. They of course dont have a patten for the exact reason you demonstrate; they dont want passengers buying WTP instead of Club
Read the spending and upgrading using Avios thread
Your guide to spending Avios | 2019 edition
Read the spending and upgrading using Avios thread
Your guide to spending Avios | 2019 edition
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#7
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That flight is showing LHR 4:05p → ORD 6:45p
F8 A7 J9 C9 D9 R9 I9 W9 E9 T9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N4 Q0 O0 G0
so set up an alert at baredemptionfinder.com, and hope for the best!
F8 A7 J9 C9 D9 R9 I9 W9 E9 T9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N4 Q0 O0 G0
so set up an alert at baredemptionfinder.com, and hope for the best!
#8
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To be clear you can do it on day of departure, but through the normal channels online or via call centre if the availability is there. If you've already checked in that makes it more difficult as you'd need to get unchecked. Usually availability opens up (if it's going to) a day or two before rather than on the day itself.
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Just to welcome you Russell McGuire to Flyertalk, and to the BA forum. The stickies and Dashboard will make good reading, or just following the patter in the forum, you will soon get the hang of it. If you hit jargon, there is a guide to abbreviations in the Dashboard.
Apart from the third party redemption finder site mentioned above, just keep checking via BA.com or the two BA apps, the BAEC specific app allows for a quick daily check, best to do it early morning since the main release time is midnight GMT. If you use the main BA app it's a bit cumbersome since you need to reenter passwords from time ti time. BA.com - once logged in - should keep your reccent searches listed in My Executive Club, so again that is a short cut. UuA and Redemptions come out of the same bucket so there's no real point ringing up unless you spot the availability on line. On that route I would expect redemptions to appear and disappear from day to day, so it is worth a daily check. And in particular keep an eye on the 3 or so days before departure.
Apart from the third party redemption finder site mentioned above, just keep checking via BA.com or the two BA apps, the BAEC specific app allows for a quick daily check, best to do it early morning since the main release time is midnight GMT. If you use the main BA app it's a bit cumbersome since you need to reenter passwords from time ti time. BA.com - once logged in - should keep your reccent searches listed in My Executive Club, so again that is a short cut. UuA and Redemptions come out of the same bucket so there's no real point ringing up unless you spot the availability on line. On that route I would expect redemptions to appear and disappear from day to day, so it is worth a daily check. And in particular keep an eye on the 3 or so days before departure.
#10
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Other airlines separate the upgrade and redemption buckets.
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Try searching for Executive Club. I don't know if it is globally disponible.