Astonishing British Airways Maldives and Mauritius Avios availability

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• James67 says:

  3 Mar3 March 06:42

  I think it may be an error. Great availability all over Asia in CW last night. By the time I got my clubcard points over this morning there is virtually nothing again 🙁

  • matthew says:

    3 Mar3 March 06:49

    Finding nothing either.

    • James67 says:

      3 Mar3 March 07:00

      Of late BA premium cabin availability is worse than I ever recall seeing. It is like a devaluation in disguise, if availability does not improve soon it will make even the Delta devaluation look good.

      • ian says:

        3 Mar3 March 07:52

        I agree.

        I’ve switched my collection preferences to other programmes lately simply because of the dire availability on BA.

  • Volker says:

    3 Mar3 March 08:17

    “By the time I got my clubcard points over this morning…”

    I haven’t exchanged CC points for Avios for a while, still waiting for a bonus promotion… How long does it usually take to get them from Tesco to BA/avios.com?

    • James67 says:

      3 Mar3 March 08:40

      Raffles told me 2-3 days but sometimes overnight. Got mine overnight but even that wasn’t good enough.Got fed up waiting for bonus so I moved 188k so hopefully I’ll not miss the next mistake or suitable seats will be released.

• Benj says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:01

  Seems to all be gone

• david says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:15

  Still Mauritius Club availability outbound (only) in early October, options for coming back are either economy on the direct flight – it’s a day flight, so not too bad and usually far from full in economy – or there is decent Club availability from Johannesburg mid-week during October and you can pay for economy seats (around £250 each, I think) from Mauritius to Johannesburg.

• flieduk says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:38

  There was something similar a few days ago with JMK. Tonnes of availability then this weekend I could find sweet f*** all to any half decent destination in prem.

  Yes, devaluation in disguise

• stuartB says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:52

  Same – no availability !

• Andy says:

  3 Mar3 March 09:05

  I was recently invited to give my views on the exec club (some survey they were running). I made it explicitly clear that the lack of reward availability is making me consider other airlines.

  There are far too many people chasing far too few seats to the good destinations.

  • James67 says:

    3 Mar3 March 09:22

    And the real availability os worse when you consider BAs CW desigm allows them to generally cram more seats onto the same space on same aircraft as other airlines. who else has 8 across J?

• steve says:

  3 Mar3 March 09:12

  Either they’re playing silly buggers with us all, or the computer is throwing out random availability to places. Can’t complain–nailed Christmas flights home on Sunday morning after eight weeks of rising frustration with the whole thing–but clearly there’s now a premium on being able to pull the trigger quickly…and for myself, I’ll be changing my patterns on this to be ready.

• Andy says:

  3 Mar3 March 09:31

  Is there an automated way to check availability? The woeful search function on ba.com takes far too long.

  • Rob says:

    3 Mar3 March 09:47

    No, such tools do exist but don’t work for BA. Reason is that BA award availability does not show in the central reservation systems, which is what you need to scan to automate searches.

    • nux says:

      3 Mar3 March 10:43

      KVS Tool shows BA award availability, and although it is not automated it provides an easier/quicker way to search. In effect it logs in to BA (or QF/CX/JL for *O) in the background and does an award search.

      Award Nexus provides automated alerts for award availability and works for BA also.

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