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Sydney: LOTS of Avios seats in Club World showing for April to June 2026

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A reader flagged this evening (Saturday) that a LOT of Avios availability in Club World is currently showing for April, May and June 2026.

On many dates you can get FOUR Club World seats.

Whilst its heading into winter, I’m sure demand is still there from the ‘friends and family’ market.

Avios seats to Sydney

There is also a LOT of inbound Club World availability in September, October and November 2025, but virtually nothing in business class going out.

Here’s a SeatSpy screenshot (our preferred seat search partner) which shows dates with TWO seats in Club World between London Heathrow and Sydney:

Avios seats to Sydney

Here is availability for FOUR seats in Club World:

Club World Avios seats to Sydney

This is not ‘phantom’ availability as far as I can tell. Of course, by the time you look things could have changed from 10pm Saturday when I wrote this.


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Comments (47)

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  • Laurence Dalby says:

    Not seeing anything to Singapore on the BA website in May.

    • Rob says:

      Thanks. Have removed that line. Perhaps BA has a way of not selling the SIN seat to protect SYD availability.

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

        Put them into the system as married segments?

        • Neal says:

          It’s not married segments. Married segments logic applies when you have two flight numbers. BA15/16 is a direct flight with a stopover in Singapore. Inventory can be controlled separately for the three possible itineraries you can do on this flight: LHR-SIN, LHR-SYD and SIN-SYD

  • Colin MacKinnon says:

    I’m getting first outbound from 25th February, first inbound from 26th Feb.

    Late April onwards a fab time for the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Colin MacKinnon says:

    Maybe BA is now reloading Avios availability after their software changes?

    Had been trying to get to KUL in late Now/early Dec or in the new year, and no seats were showing.

    Now lots of outbound available, but no inbound…. as yet?

    Early breakfast, me thinks!

    • KS says:

      And it seems reasonable on price. For a family of four I got it to price at 1.3m avios and £1,550 taxes, all in. Decent indeed.

      • KS says:

        Upon doing a bit more exploration this all looks quite odd. During that same period cash flights (1pax) LHR to JFK are £2,000 return in business and less than £1,000 in premium. Must be cheaper than you’d expect?

    • Boon says:

      There’s redemption flights LON > KUL on the 18th Dec and 20th Dec. Prime dates for anyone looking to book a trip out to Malaysia or South East Asia in general over the Xmas holidays….

      • Boon says:

        (Might be Gold availability though…. but still better than a few weeks ago when I checked)

    • John says:

      I guess it’s all just knock on effects from the POS to POC clusterf*

    • David S says:

      Get yourself to SIN first and it’s a short hop to KUL

  • Paul Stevens says:

    Still loads of availability this morning. How annoying I’m 3k off a companion voucher with just the right amount of avios….

    • Dave Hughes says:

      Send someone in the family a PayPal ‘gift’ , then get them to pay you back 😉

    • FCP says:

      Easy, buy a flexible/ refundable flight ticket for £3k. Get the voucher issued and then refund the ticket….

  • masaccio says:

    Is there a seatspy bug showing these? If I filter for 2 seats in business, I get a load of grey circles and when clicking on the calendar, I have to option to “show 1 filtered flight” and this shows the 170k CW seats that match the filter rules. The points slider defaults to 170k so wondering if it’s a < versus <= coding error.

    • masaccio says:

      Ah never mind me, it had unticked both peak and off-peak. Which is a bug as that’s a non-sensical choice.

  • Joe says:

    I noticed this last Wednesday. The seats may have released earlier than that. At the time there were 2+ seats in J (both inbound and outbound) between LHR and SYD on a large number of surprising dates in the next six months, including over Christmas. I have never previously seen seats like these drop in meaningful volume after the initial T-355 releases (which typically are snapped up within seconds, at least for the Christmas period). Does anybody know what is going on? It feels surprising that BA would offer up these seats at scale. I assume there has been historically good demand for cash fares on these seats.

  • Shane says:

    It’s possibly because from around the beginning of April 2026 BA15/16 revert to yin-yang style business class seats, and they’re proving harder to sell

    • Dragonfly says:

      @Shane: You may be correct, because I have booked the inbound syd (sin) lhr for mid june next year and when i selected seats, they were the yin-yang style 🙁

  • Shane says:

    Yeah, I’m already booked to go out in early January and return in late March. I had to book to fly back on a peak day at the end of March to avoid the yin-yangs.

    It’s an absolute disgrace that BA continue to roster (for half of the year) their ancient business class product on their longest route.

    • BBbetter says:

      There are people who will only fly BA even though SQ, QR and EK are vastly superior.

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