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Nov 19, 2008 | 5:36 am

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TerryK

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Originally Posted by BangkokTraveler

Just got off ORD-NRT on Monday Nov 17. Many, many empty seats throughout the entire aircraft. People were sleeping across 4 seats, and there were at least 6 or 7 empty C-class seats that I saw. it surprised me because they went from 2 flights a day to 1 (although it is a 747).

I guess it all depends. I was on ORD-NRT 2 weekends ago; there were 8 on the upgrade list for C->F, only 1 cleared; there were 33 on the upgrade list Y->C, only 1 cleared. F and C were completely full while Y was about 80% full.