As I see, currently Airbnb calendar doesn't have a feature that enables hosts to lift two day Friday, Saturday booking restricion only for specific upcoming "weekends".
In order to avoid that Fridays and Saturdays would be booked separately I have two rules in place for my calendar availablity:
1. If Guests want to book a Friday, the min. stay is two days, so min. Saturday as well.
2. On Saturdays arriving is not possible, this way neither Saturday can be booked separately.
But there are some occasions when I use my guesthouse for personal use, but for example only on Friday or Saturday, so that day I block in the calendar, but then I would make avaibale the other day, but currently its only possible if I remove the upper rules for all weekends, which of course I dont want.
Extra Tip:
Also when the upcoming Friday and Saturday is not booked together, I would make them availale to be booked even separatly, so I give an extra opportunity for these days to be booked rather then missing out on it.
Anybody has the same issue?
I think it is a priority problem, Airbnb should tackle this, since on this both Airbnb and the Host is missing out on extra revenue, Guests missing out on extra reservation possibilites.
Other global platforms easily have this feature, and this can be adjusted in a flexible manner, in a way that in the calendar simply selecting the dates and adjust them simply ovverides the basic availability settings.
József