Will BA release available Club Seats for Avios?

[ross]

Hi All

Flight on Thursday (in 6 days).
We are in Premium.
Used BA 2-4-1

There are no Club seats for AVIOS redemption.

There are Club seats available for cash.

Will BA ever release the unsold Club seats for AVIOS redemption?

Thanks

[ChrisC]

Just because there are cash fares available does not mean they will also release avios ones.

It’s a question of just checking to see if they do.

[Peter K]

Only if they feel they won’t sell them for cash. Let’s say there are 6 seats available, selling one for £6k cash is better than selling 4x reward seats as they don’t have the incidental costs of so many passengers.

Also, they don’t want the person who would pay £6k to book a reward flight instead so that they lose £5k in cash. They don’t want reward flights to cannibalise very lucrative cash ones.

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[NorthernLass]

Also, where are you going? You’re far more likely to get extra seats released, say, to NYC, than to MLE.
Have you set up an alert (if a subscriber to something like SeatSpy)? I actually set up a couple the other day when I was looking to do a last minute trip change for next week and have had quite a few pings.

[Lady London]

If any are released often it may be very close to the flight – say last 48hrs. Though I know that’s not of use to many.

Our posters with inside knowledge may be able to narrow down how far ahead is likely

[Rob]

One thing BA does well is to ensure that there is no noticeable pattern to this sort of thing – because if there was, people would start to work around it, costing BA money!

[ross]

Hi

It’s to Denver. I’m booked on Premium Economy.

Hoping Club get released so that I can cha ge the seats to Club.

I am keeping an eye out

Fingers crossed

[ross]

Anyone have a BA number to call that Works!?!

Assuming the tickets come up and I can upgrade.

Last tike I tried to phone BA no one answered