Bucket availability on 2nd flight depends on 1st flight?
May 4, 2005, 6:38 am
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Bucket availability on 2nd flight depends on 1st flight?
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May 4, 2005, 6:06 pm
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Originally Posted by vinnmann
The number of seats in each bucket changes for DL150 depending on which flight I take MCO-NYC. Anyone know why?
BTW, there is now a dedicated KVS Availability Tool thread on this forum: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=425794
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May 4, 2005, 8:24 pm
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As KVS mentioned, it's a married pair. Basically this allows the airline to allocate a number of seats for certain markets. An example would be a feeder route. An example:
MCO-ATL has 30 seats in H. Using a married pair, they can limit 10 H seats to people wishing to travel from MCO-ATL while saving the other 20 H seats for people travelling MCO to the LAX. When the 10 H for MCO-ATL is sold, you'll get H0 for MCO-ATL but can still get H9 for MCO-LAX.
Often times, you have the reverse happening, MCO-ATL H9 but H0 for MCO-ATL-LAX. When that happens, some websites let you get around this restriction if you priced MCO-ATL-LAX as multi segments instead of a connection provided both MCO-ATL and ATL-LAX by themselves have H seats.
In addition, you can also have MCO-ATL H0, ATL-LAX H0 but MCO-ATL being H9.
MCO-ATL has 30 seats in H. Using a married pair, they can limit 10 H seats to people wishing to travel from MCO-ATL while saving the other 20 H seats for people travelling MCO to the LAX. When the 10 H for MCO-ATL is sold, you'll get H0 for MCO-ATL but can still get H9 for MCO-LAX.
Often times, you have the reverse happening, MCO-ATL H9 but H0 for MCO-ATL-LAX. When that happens, some websites let you get around this restriction if you priced MCO-ATL-LAX as multi segments instead of a connection provided both MCO-ATL and ATL-LAX by themselves have H seats.
In addition, you can also have MCO-ATL H0, ATL-LAX H0 but MCO-ATL being H9.
May 5, 2005, 7:31 am
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Originally Posted by seawolf
As KVS mentioned, it's a married pair. Basically this allows the airline to allocate a number of seats for certain markets. An example would be a feeder route. An example:
MCO-ATL has 30 seats in H. Using a married pair, they can limit 10 H seats to people wishing to travel from MCO-ATL while saving the other 20 H seats for people travelling MCO to the LAX. When the 10 H for MCO-ATL is sold, you'll get H0 for MCO-ATL but can still get H9 for MCO-LAX.
Often times, you have the reverse happening, MCO-ATL H9 but H0 for MCO-ATL-LAX. When that happens, some websites let you get around this restriction if you priced MCO-ATL-LAX as multi segments instead of a connection provided both MCO-ATL and ATL-LAX by themselves have H seats.
In addition, you can also have MCO-ATL H0, ATL-LAX H0 but MCO-ATL being H9.
MCO-ATL has 30 seats in H. Using a married pair, they can limit 10 H seats to people wishing to travel from MCO-ATL while saving the other 20 H seats for people travelling MCO to the LAX. When the 10 H for MCO-ATL is sold, you'll get H0 for MCO-ATL but can still get H9 for MCO-LAX.
Often times, you have the reverse happening, MCO-ATL H9 but H0 for MCO-ATL-LAX. When that happens, some websites let you get around this restriction if you priced MCO-ATL-LAX as multi segments instead of a connection provided both MCO-ATL and ATL-LAX by themselves have H seats.
In addition, you can also have MCO-ATL H0, ATL-LAX H0 but MCO-ATL being H9.
May 5, 2005, 7:36 am
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Take a look at the line that involves flying CO or AA from MCO to NYC. In those two cases, DL 150 availability should be the same as a standalone JFK-VCE flight on DL 150, yet they are different in the display. This makes no sense (the CO flight is a native CO number and thus would be treated the same as AA, not codeshare).
May 5, 2005, 7:53 pm
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