Reply To: ANA awards with Virgin Points

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Hi, I’m planning to use my Virgin points for ANA in J next year (I need 2 seats). My dates aren’t available yet, but as I’ve never done this before I have been keeping an eye on availability via United. I’ve checked departures from London, Frankfurt, Brussels and Vienna and I can’t find a single flight which has more than 1 seat available.

It doesn’t seem to be that they are all booked up, but that max 1 is made available in the first place. Does this seem the norm, and is what I’m seeing reflective of what I can book via Virgin? From what I’d read it was typical for only 1 F seat to be released, but getting 2 in J was normally realistic if booked quickly?

Cheers for any advice!