Business Classic Rewards showing as N/A?

[TRS-80]

I'm looking at booking some travel PER-MEL in mid-August (after cancelling the flights I'd booked for early June) and while on PER-MEL there's some Business Classic Reward availability, on MEL-PER availability is all showing up as N/A, which is different to No seats. Does anyone know why this would be happening and what it means?

 

[Mattg]

Normally this means there is no Business cabin on the flight (e.g. for a Dash 8 or single-class 717). Although that shouldn't be the case on MEL-PER.

The Qantas website does do funny things every now and again...

 

[TRS-80]

I thought that but they're listed as A330 and 737s. Maybe they're just not allowing redemption at the moment? I checked MEL-SYD and about half are showing as N/A, one had a "Seats nearly gone" label below it.

 

[samh004]

I came across something similar the other day when I was looking to book an award flight. I briefly selected the flight and moved to the next screen before second guessing myself and leaving the booking process to think. When I searched again it showed the seat was gone, in a similar fashion perhaps to what you were seeing (the column was there but there was no availability – whereas usually when there's no availability the column isn't even visible). I later worked out that it was holding the booking for me for about 10 minutes, at which point a subsequent search showed availability again. So perhaps someone else had temporarily held the seat while they were going through a booking process, and if they subsequently don't book it, it'll re-appear?