when all the availability disappears suddenly - does it ever come back?
Sep 27, 2014 | 7:08 am
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: NY
Posts: 766
when all the availability disappears suddenly - does it ever come back?
I was trying to book TLV-NYC on IB in July 2015.
There was a ton of availability in business - most days, 5+ seats, multiple flights.
My BA/IB accounts were not syncing, so I had to call BA. I procrastinated, and only got the issue straightened out yesterday.
Today, all the availability is gone. Not just some flights are booked up - no availability in business at all for the months of July and August, where there were oodles of it a few days ago.
So, my question is - does it ever come back?
Or should I start booking other, less convenient routings?
There was a ton of availability in business - most days, 5+ seats, multiple flights.
My BA/IB accounts were not syncing, so I had to call BA. I procrastinated, and only got the issue straightened out yesterday.
Today, all the availability is gone. Not just some flights are booked up - no availability in business at all for the months of July and August, where there were oodles of it a few days ago.
So, my question is - does it ever come back?
Or should I start booking other, less convenient routings?
Sep 27, 2014 | 8:39 am
#3
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 756
I was trying to book TLV-NYC on IB in July 2015.
There was a ton of availability in business - most days, 5+ seats, multiple flights.
My BA/IB accounts were not syncing, so I had to call BA. I procrastinated, and only got the issue straightened out yesterday.
Today, all the availability is gone. Not just some flights are booked up - no availability in business at all for the months of July and August, where there were oodles of it a few days ago.
So, my question is - does it ever come back?
Or should I start booking other, less convenient routings?
There was a ton of availability in business - most days, 5+ seats, multiple flights.
My BA/IB accounts were not syncing, so I had to call BA. I procrastinated, and only got the issue straightened out yesterday.
Today, all the availability is gone. Not just some flights are booked up - no availability in business at all for the months of July and August, where there were oodles of it a few days ago.
So, my question is - does it ever come back?
Or should I start booking other, less convenient routings?
Sep 27, 2014 | 9:14 am
#4
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: NY
Posts: 766
that's just it - it didn't disappear in bits and pieces.
Where a week ago, there was availability for nearly every day, now there's nothing at all - not for any day in July or August.
It is extremely unlikely that every award seat has been booked up - suddenly, 11 months ahead. It's more like Iberia just took out these seats.
Where a week ago, there was availability for nearly every day, now there's nothing at all - not for any day in July or August.
It is extremely unlikely that every award seat has been booked up - suddenly, 11 months ahead. It's more like Iberia just took out these seats.
Sep 27, 2014 | 10:01 am
#5
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Location: home = LAX
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It may work differently at different airlines. There is no one general answer, and you don't want a general answer. So your post belongs in the Iberia forum (I'm alerting the moderators to move it for you).
Sep 28, 2014 | 9:01 am
#6
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 756
that's just it - it didn't disappear in bits and pieces.
Where a week ago, there was availability for nearly every day, now there's nothing at all - not for any day in July or August.
It is extremely unlikely that every award seat has been booked up - suddenly, 11 months ahead. It's more like Iberia just took out these seats.
Where a week ago, there was availability for nearly every day, now there's nothing at all - not for any day in July or August.
It is extremely unlikely that every award seat has been booked up - suddenly, 11 months ahead. It's more like Iberia just took out these seats.
Sep 29, 2014 | 4:50 am
#7
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Canada, USA, Europe
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It's such a dynamic system, and with so many more miles floating around than 20 years ago it's managed in a very different way. You need to check all the time as stuff comes up and then disappears regularly.
