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Booked 5 J returns in mid December’24 for a last minute family trip outbound 1st Jan & back on 14th Jan ‘25 so very much peak season. We were using BAPP 241s so benefited from additional availability initially but we had to shuffle stuff round the week before departure & there were >5 seats available most days even without the voucher. There’s a lot of capacity to JNB with an A380 & A350 so not uncommon for there to be a few seats open up for Avios last minute.
There will never be an empty seat in W/J on departure though as it’s incredibly popular for staff/family standby. This can be no issue as it was on our inbound (albeit we were asked politely by lounge attendant if we would swap seats to get a couple together – we did & it transpired he was a BA pilot) or a big issue of crew fawning over their mates at expense of paying punters as it was on our outbound.
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