No Business Velocity Reward seats on some domestic flights

[HeavyElectricity]

When searching for business reward seats to use my complementary platinum upgrade, I was surprised to see that some flights don't appear to have any business reward seats available. Maybe I'm misremembering, but it seemed that until now, nearly all flights had 1 or 2 seats available on them. This was for PER-SYD (and return) in June.

This shows "8" seats being available via points+pay only, so it can't be that the reward seats were already taken:

 

[Denali]

Reward J seats for June to Perth would have been taken already. I know I book most things many months out

 

[kerfuffle]

Reward J seats for June to Perth would have been taken already. I know I book most things many months out

OP's screenshot has eight J seats available though (allegedly)

 

[Denali]

OP's screenshot has eight J seats available though (allegedly)

Theyre showing 8 x points & pay seats available, not reward seats. I dont think any airlines releases more than 2 reward seats per flight but happy to be corrected. Did OP select correct criteria to get reward seats?

 

[HeavyElectricity]

Theyre showing 8 points & pay seats available, not reward seat. I dont think any airlines releases more than 2 reward seats per flight but happy to be corrected

Yep and there are only 8 seats in the cabin, therefore none have been sold as yet.

 

[kerfuffle]

Theyre showing 8 points & pay seats available, not reward seat. I dont think any airlines releases more than 2 reward seats per flight but happy to be corrected

The point is that the flight in the screenshot has zero Reward seats in J, which as pointed out by HeavyElectricity, is an eight-seat cabin (not 12 like Qantas)

 

[Mattg]

I don't believe Velocity has ever advertised a specific minimum reward seat guarantee. But yes, in general most flights would have had at least some reward seat availability in the past, on most routes.

Trans-con J availability has been quite hard to come by in recent years though. Same thing to Bali.