A LHR - GOT flight is no longer offering seats for sale on 17 May - what's going on?
Apr 27, 2026 | 2:13 pm
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A LHR - GOT flight is no longer offering seats for sale on 17 May - what's going on?
Trying to book a colleague onto the BA788 LHR - GOT for Sunday 17th May, 1435hrs departure. I already have one colleague on it, but now two need to travel.
However, can only get ba.com to show one flight for that day, on a 06.20hrs departure.
Could this mean the flight is full and no longer available, in any class? I looked at the previous Sunday, and it's offered on that date.
Or is BA removing certain flights for sale which they plan to cancel imminently, to save fuel?!
Any ideas? Really want my two colleagues to travel together!
However, can only get ba.com to show one flight for that day, on a 06.20hrs departure.
Could this mean the flight is full and no longer available, in any class? I looked at the previous Sunday, and it's offered on that date.
Or is BA removing certain flights for sale which they plan to cancel imminently, to save fuel?!
Any ideas? Really want my two colleagues to travel together!
Apr 27, 2026 | 2:48 pm
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Apr 27, 2026 | 2:55 pm
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Thh way that BA.COM doesn't show flights on booking page which are full is really annoying - its looks like a flight has been cancelled when it hasn't. It's very customer unfriendly and causes issues and confusion as the OP shows.
This "enhancement" on the website happened a couple of years ago at the last website revamp ...
This "enhancement" on the website happened a couple of years ago at the last website revamp ...
Apr 27, 2026 | 4:48 pm
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BA is the sole carrier serving LHR to and from GOT.
Apr 27, 2026 | 11:04 pm
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There are 5 non-stop flights that day from London airports to GOT on a mixture of BA, Norwegian and Ryanair. Only the earlier BA flight has seats for sale.
Apr 27, 2026 | 11:45 pm
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Just a guess but Thursday 14th is Ascension Day which is a public holiday in Sweden (similar to many other western & northern European countries). Many folks will take the Friday off as well to have a 4-day weekend. This Sunday afternoon flight from London sounds ideal for folks returning home after a long weekend away.
Yesterday | 1:17 am
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Just a guess but Thursday 14th is Ascension Day which is a public holiday in Sweden (similar to many other western & northern European countries). Many folks will take the Friday off as well to have a 4-day weekend. This Sunday afternoon flight from London sounds ideal for folks returning home after a long weekend away.
Yesterday | 5:35 am
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It's a real shame they don't operate the nightstopping service anymore - clearly there's a lot of demand.
Yesterday | 7:37 am
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The flight is J1Y0 now if you want to buy the last seat on the plane...
Yesterday | 11:23 am
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Hah, thats cos I cancelled the colleague booked on it and instead booked them both to CPH. Where they were headed was a roughly equal length onward journey from GOT or CPH, so just worked it a different way!