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Does anyone know how long a possible hold placed by BAEC on a seat might take to reappear on the system?
Just been on phone to BAEC looking at routing options. During the call the main leg was available in CW but (maybe stupidly!) I asked if could rerun the search with a different starting point (Dublin rather than UK to see what the saving might be like). Running the new search took under a minute but then CW seats no longer available for the main leg – argh!
The chances of the main leg CW seats being booked up in the 1 minute window of the new search being run seems low to me. I suspect instead just BA IT doing its thing and that the seats will reappear in a while – fingers crossed!
Question for you all – how long to wait though before biting the bullet on an alternate route: an hour, 24 hours, longer? At some point I need to commit to accept the seats aren’t just floating around the system.
Totally accept I was trying to be too clever! But for those interested there was a £1000 additional cost booking NCL-LHR-SCL return with BA instead of separate NCL-LHR-MAD and MAD-SCL bookings with Iberia, so was going to be worth the complication.
Just to add another reason I think unlikely the seats have been booked and more likely have a hold against them are that both outbound and inbound legs on the dates and times I was after have disappeared…
Typically in my experience might be 20 minutes to 3-4 hours. Haven’t experimented with BA
Seats in question have reappeared an hour later (phew!).
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