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I’m assuming based on the the pricing that these are economy seats?
If the whole thing is repriced when you add the return I really can’t see the point in booking the outbound before the inbound flights are released.
The only possible benefit is that if the outbound pricing jumps sufficiently in the interim that two one-way bookings (i.e. leaving the outbound booking untouched) become more attractive even though you’d only be getting the benefit of the voucher on the outbound.
A lot of us are in the mindset of jumping on redemption seats as soon as they are released. However the best time to book cash fares (decent sales aside) is normally around 3 months ahead of travel and you’d logically expect dynamically priced redemption seats to follow a similar pattern. Are the seats you are looking at marked as saver seats?
Yes, 4 economy seats that are hopefully saver tickets.
Given school term dates, I will have the book the outbound as soon as they become available. As they will likely be gone 3 weeks later when the inbound flight is loaded.
I guess I can see how the outbounds have changed to determine whether I leave it as 2 separate booking or ask for a reprice so I can use the voucher in full. Feels a crappy system now, as most I save on the voucher is 20k points.
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