AAdvantage Booking over the Festive Season (Non AA Carrier)

[Longrass]

So i've been looking into internal flights throughout Europe (Flying BA) and noticed surprisingly that on Monday, the availability of (ATH-LHR-DUB) and (DUB-LHR-FCO) went from being available in J on every day between now and 28th Jan (on both legs) to zero availability on any but a few dates that randomly occur.

Is it just me, or does it seem that BA have decided to withdraw Award availability over the Christmas break?

Can anyone else see this?

ATH-DUB 24th December 2013
DUB-FCO 2nd January 2014

 

[Keith009]

I've not checked availability but that seems entirely normal to me. You are traveling over peak periods when airlines can expect to fill bums on seats with commercial fares and at fairly high prices due to demand. 25th of Dec should be quieter as no one wants to fly on Christmas day (you'd want to be at wherever you're celebrating Christmas by Christmas day). Some airlines even have blackouts over these peak travel periods. Same thing with Easter.