Issues with using Velocity for J tickets originating US to Australia

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JoshuaL1997

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I'm stalking flights for a trip next year to the US and Canada and know that United J seats are loaded onto Velocity about 30 days in advance but that only seem to be the case for flights originating in Australia. Returning flights seem to only ever have availability in economy. Does anyone know why that is?
 
There are known experiences and issues with United J availability as outlined in many threads including this one:

Velocity trans-Atlantic availability on United: can't book direct flights?

I was just having a look on the Virgin Australia website for Velocity reward seat availability from EWR to LHR on United. United has around six daily flights on this route, and there's plenty of non-stop saver award availability in Economy on the many dates I looked at, which you could book...
www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au
 
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