First availability

[njb]

They still seem to be releasing new seats in First- just bagged two for ORD in August. Had been tracking this daily.

[meta]

They were available to ORD since the article was published as noted in the comments.

[T_London]

That’s great! Hopefully they’ll do the same for NY…

[T_London]

*For September

[njb]

meta wrote:

They were available to ORD since the article was published as noted in the comments.

Not quite so – there were on the later flight but not the 10.25am one- I have been checking since the article was published.

[NorthernLass]

Not all services have an F cabin, though.

There seems to be huge demand to travel TO the US in July and August though interestingly there is still plenty of return availability. Hopefully it’s just a blip with people desperate to fly across the pond in the holiday period now the US has re-opened (and dropped the testing and mask requirement) as I was hoping for F seats to NYC or BOS at the end of July next year!

[njb]

NorthernLass wrote:

Not all services have an F cabin, though.

There seems to be huge demand to travel TO the US in July and August though interestingly there is still plenty of return availability. Hopefully it’s just a blip with people desperate to fly across the pond in the holiday period now the US has re-opened (and dropped the testing and mask requirement) as I was hoping for F seats to NYC or BOS at the end of July next year!

It is my 60th during the trip – Chicago is on my list of places to see – and really wanted to go there in style!

My cabin crew training starts a month later – where no doubt i will then be down the back for the foreseeable future!

[ThriceForgiven]

njb wrote:

They still seem to be releasing new seats in First- just bagged two for ORD in August. Had been tracking this daily.

Which service are you using to track this daily? RewardFlightFinder dot com? Or is there a better one? Also, is there an equivalent service for Virgin?

I’ve been out of the game for a while and looking to optimise how I bag some Avios/Virgin redemptions…

[T_London]

ThriceForgiven wrote:

njb wrote:

They still seem to be releasing new seats in First- just bagged two for ORD in August. Had been tracking this daily.

Which service are you using to track this daily? RewardFlightFinder dot com? Or is there a better one? Also, is there an equivalent service for Virgin?

I’ve been out of the game for a while and looking to optimise how I bag some Avios/Virgin redemptions…

I highly recommend Seat Spy! Saves so much time.

[Andrew J]

That’s good news – I won’t fly Club World as it’s too substandard for my requirements, so with the new 50% Amex voucher, First is my target redemption.

[njb]

ThriceForgiven wrote:

njb wrote:

They still seem to be releasing new seats in First- just bagged two for ORD in August. Had been tracking this daily.

Which service are you using to track this daily? RewardFlightFinder dot com? Or is there a better one? Also, is there an equivalent service for Virgin?

I’ve been out of the game for a while and looking to optimise how I bag some Avios/Virgin redemptions…

Using just my phone and an early morning daily check on the BA apo whilst I have my first coffee of the day – usually followed by Wordle 😂