Just flipped my BA4 Oct 3rd to BA2 Oct 4th. Thanks for the tip on availability.

Got 'em!

BA2 on 10OCT!

Thanks

YGM

It is? The only thing that changed after I flew Concorde was that I had flown Concorde.

Congrats- yesterday afternoon, there were at least 7 seats left on that flight (according to QF); tonight, 0. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

I have enough miles to fly it again, and a friend of mine is looking to join me if I go. So, if anyone has a spare 100K BA miles for a o/w ticket, please drop me an e-mail. Thanks!

jspear - please enlighten me - I have QF miles - and checked for BA inventory - but when I called QF asking for the appopriate flight was told that the Concord fights no longer even show up to Qantas agents in first inventory - if this is true how did you book the Concord with QF miles?

Thanks!

I don't mean to sound like the shoplifting police for BA but, as you can tell, I got pretty ticked off a few months ago when someone boasted about the great Concorde robbery...pillows, blankets, s&p shakers, emergency cards, etc etc etc.

It's tacky and ruins the experience for others.

QF, didn't mean to jump on you. fbddavidson brought up the name of the plunderer, so if you want to do a search, you'll see what I mean!

It wasn't easy. I probably spoke with six different reps. on four different calls over the course of a few days. Apparently all CSRs received a memo after the retirement announcement that BA would no longer be releasing Concorde seats to QF for award bookings. And by all accounts that was the case until very recently. As others on this board can attest, Z class availability has been showing up here and there for Concorde. My advice is to call and immediately ask for a supervisor, tell her you have a friend at BA who has told you that there is still some Z space available and would you please check for availability on BA2, 4 whatever on such-and-such a date.

Save you the bother :-

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum.../003983-2.html

Thank you!

Glad to see the evidence was saved for future use!

What a bummer. Called Qantas - seats were available for 25/9 BA2. By the time this slow res-agent had it processed, it was gone.

I'll just keep trying. Whish me luck!

I've got to ask the obvious question here:

Why are BA selling award seats when they show R0 AC EC in a CRS?

I checked; and BA would sell me seats for 100000 miles on more days than a travel agent (or indeed BA Reservations themselves) would for money in R Class.

I think it is noble that BA offer as much Z inventory as R inventory - that rewards frequent flyers (or those who are very big fans of Inside Flyer magazine). I think it goes too far when award availability is greater than paid.

I for one know someone who would have bought an A ticket on BA 1 next week, had there been seats. I think it's odd of BA not to sell seats to willing, paying when they are obviously available.

Regards,
Alex

BA is still showing availability for BA0002 on 3 and 4 October and BA0004 in 3 October.

Booked mine for 16 October.

Are you looking in that German site with access to Galileo? I can see a lot of sense in BA not wanting to make SSC seats openly available in any market other than UK and US - possibly Oz, too, given the success some people have had with availability from QF FF.

And R0 simply means that BA won't confirm the seat automatically in that market. They will probably still take a WL request and then decide manually whether to confirm it.

I think that's correct. Once they close the waitlist for R, you would see RC. That will then pretty much be the final call for that flight, given the R class ticket rules.