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Old Jul 15, 2012, 8:30 pm
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jfkeze
 
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SQ has always been restricted, and restricted as in never giving inventory. They believe that Premium cabins should only have premium paying passengers. Last week, the floodgates opened and plenty of us booked some nice SQ First tickets
LX usually opens the week before, so if you are flexible, book a UA F ticket and switch to LX in the days before your trip
LH is usually available in advance (on the 340s, 7474, but haven't seen any 380 seats)

Let's be honest, all those airlines are superior in both hard and soft product to UA. So they actually are able to sell F seats versus UA/AA which are mostly Crew (Non-Revs and crew friends) or up-graders (this occurs mostly in J). Also over the next few months UA F might be known as Flyertalk cabin/class due to the recent 4 miles sale hehe
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