LATAM Award space not showing up on BA.com?
Aug 2, 2018, 8:27 am
#46
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: GVA
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I am looking for LATAM availability for IGU - RIO (GIG, SDU) on December 30-31. BA shows nothing. Qantas shows nothing either. However, when I search for IGU - SAO (GRU, CGH) with Qantas, it shows availability for a connection flight via SDU.
What is the source of truth here? Is there a reasonable way to check availablity online? I am going to call up BA agents but looking at the experiences above, they don't always see it either.
What is the source of truth here? Is there a reasonable way to check availablity online? I am going to call up BA agents but looking at the experiences above, they don't always see it either.
Since IGU-GIG is very sought after by tourists, I can understand there will be no Avios availability.
Aug 2, 2018, 9:22 am
#47
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: London
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Posts: 47
Thanks RafKa! What I don't understand is doesn't award availability for IGU-SDU-CGH entail availability for IGU-SDU?
To make things worse, now qantas.com also displays some flaky results. I don't know what to ask the BA agent for.
To make things worse, now qantas.com also displays some flaky results. I don't know what to ask the BA agent for.
Aug 2, 2018, 11:12 am
#48
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Trust me - nothing makes sense when searching for Latam awards on BA. Sometimes there are 9 seats available on a certain flight, and the next day, none.
Aug 3, 2018, 4:42 am
#49
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: London
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Yes, for award search this has been my experience as well. The bitter thing is that I fail to find a good alternative.
Aug 19, 2018, 11:54 pm
#50
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Aug 22, 2018, 2:28 am
#51
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I would try searching MIA. I’ve seen very limited LATAM space in 2019 (I.e., one or two days with J availability). Honestly, I think AA is probably going to have better availability. I also, personally, don’t think LATAM is that much better than AA any more such that I would go out of my way to choose it over AA, if AA options exist on more convenient dates.
Aug 22, 2018, 10:42 pm
#52
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I would try searching MIA. I’ve seen very limited LATAM space in 2019 (I.e., one or two days with J availability). Honestly, I think AA is probably going to have better availability. I also, personally, don’t think LATAM is that much better than AA any more such that I would go out of my way to choose it over AA, if AA options exist on more convenient dates.
Aug 25, 2018, 3:28 pm
#53
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: London
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I decided to keep checking the same flights every day and I have been rewarded - got 2 award tickets on IGU-SDU on December 30th. Happy with the outcome but the process is cumbersome.
Sep 9, 2018, 4:20 pm
#54
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Brisbane
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I've been keeping an eye on some LATAM reward flights, there were 7 available Avios seats per flight in both directions for every day during the week i wanted to travel until some point last week. Now all availability for the entire route all season seems to have disappeared (on both BA and Iberia). Is this also normal? Any chance it might come back at some point?
I wondered whether Avios availability might be regularly suppressed while LATAM have sales on, or something like that?
I wondered whether Avios availability might be regularly suppressed while LATAM have sales on, or something like that?
Last edited by email2markt; Sep 9, 2018 at 4:32 pm
Sep 10, 2018, 1:55 am
#55
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I've been keeping an eye on some LATAM reward flights, there were 7 available Avios seats per flight in both directions for every day during the week i wanted to travel until some point last week. Now all availability for the entire route all season seems to have disappeared (on both BA and Iberia). Is this also normal? Any chance it might come back at some point?
I wondered whether Avios availability might be regularly suppressed while LATAM have sales on, or something like that?
I wondered whether Avios availability might be regularly suppressed while LATAM have sales on, or something like that?
Sep 10, 2018, 9:42 am
#56
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Posts: 966
I've been keeping an eye on some LATAM reward flights, there were 7 available Avios seats per flight in both directions for every day during the week i wanted to travel until some point last week. Now all availability for the entire route all season seems to have disappeared (on both BA and Iberia). Is this also normal? Any chance it might come back at some point?
I wondered whether Avios availability might be regularly suppressed while LATAM have sales on, or something like that?
I wondered whether Avios availability might be regularly suppressed while LATAM have sales on, or something like that?
Now there are NONE.
Lesson here is that if you see any space on Latam with AVIOS-Book it, as more than likely it will mysteriously disappear.
Sep 10, 2018, 11:56 am
#57
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Brisbane
Programs: BAEC Blue/Bronze, Krisflyer, Qantas
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Yes, irritatingly i've been waiting for BA to refund me some Avios in order to pay for my LATAM flights (for some reason it's taken 4 weeks so far!) and my flights have disappeared in the meantime 
Oct 9, 2018, 1:55 am
#59
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Does anyone have any updates or had luck in booking award tickets (via BA or even Qantas) for North to South America routes, or still nothing?
Jan 31, 2019, 2:14 pm
#60
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I'm seeing a lot of comments here but no definitive answers. 2 hours ago, I searched MIA-SCL and saw 2 direct LATAM flights with a few seats available for several days in both directions. I refreshed the search and now finding 0 availability (only AA flights are showing up). Can someone explain what's going on with the BA search engine?