John

Just to tie this up, in case anyone looks in future – that was on a JAL flight, which shows up if you do a specific date search on BA’s site. As of now, the same applies to the 2nd and 8th of Feb, one First seat available on JAL.

Also if flying from a European city, say Amsterdam, is it a different Avios calculation

I use SeatSpy and should First subsequently open up would it be possible then to upgrade the Club Redemption seat to F and still benefit from the 2-1?

Or I bite the bullet and go Qatar and simply just use more miles. This is actually cheaper in taxes/service fees as would opt to travel from Europe somewhere?

Ronster

I can see that January availability on BA

https://imgur.com/a/GYN6Paw

lumma

+1

Ronster

Rob was spot on – I grabbed the information from ExpertFlyer (they have a section where you enter a route and date, and it’ll tell you what’s available).

If First had been sold on the flights, you’d have seen something like F8 A4 at the beginning of the list – there are only two “fare buckets” for cash sales for First on BA.

babyg

Small low res TV screens in A380 F compared to club suites

Harry T

A good BA F crew can make that aspect better though. QR in particular can be a bit robotic.

Bernard

The only reason that “real F” business goes to Lufthansa et Al is because they have a “real F” product….obviously, to stay competitive you actually do need to stay competitive!

Ruth4325

Good evening Ruth

Hope your well

Do keep your eyes open for that.

In previous years Tokyo F availability during xma, has been quite good.

We only have to pray that BA bring it back on the 789-9. It certainly is a plane with it already in place, just not available at the moment, for either cash purchase or avios usage.

Ronster

Retron

Came here to say this! Terrible shame though. Would really love a couple of
F redemptions to TYO this Christmas.

JDB

Often quicker to do normal fast track and hang an immediate right into the Concorde lounge after security.

babyg

Too late…

JK

(sssshhhh)

Rhys

BNA no longer has F either AFAIK.

Mikeact

The forum police (formerly known as the “this isn’t bits police) are the worst thing about hfp.

Retron

Good evening all

Thank you again to Retron and Rob for this clarification

You always learn something new from this silly old game we play…..

Ronster

Julia Swain

How is one supposed to mop up your lap?????

Rob

Exactly. Only the little people are fooled by that one! Pure avios for me in F as I use the guest list thing and barely more avios than for club now.
It’s quite a hoot round Berkeley Square gang that the Mayfair gang really got BA to make F almost ‘cheap’ compared to Club and then pretty much restricted it to anyone who wasn’t super golden.

Ronster

You need access to Expert Flyer or another system that can access Amadeus data, I think.

Ronster

Hi Rob

Thanks for the update

Where is that info available?

Ronster

Those are the seats available for cash – ‘I’ is discounted business class for cash, which is nil. R, D, C, J are ever increasingly expensive business class seat buckets. A bucket cannot show more than 9 even if more than 9 are for sale.

Retron

Good afternoon Retron

Thanks foe replying.

I’ve checked with the BA Avios availability search and no JAL flights are available on either of those 2 days.

So strange that Seatspy has them appearing.

Can you explain what this info is and where its its available please

“BA7: J9 C9 D9 R9 I0 W9 E0 T0 Y9 B3 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0 G0”

Thank you

Gordon

Also did you know that every utility company charges a percentage on your bill to pay for energy theft?

JDB

@JDB Thanks for that, I was having a good day. Tbh I didn’t even notice as I just let the utility bills go out on direct debits.

E

Not in the current winter timetable.

JDB

Happy memories..