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Old Dec 3, 2008, 4:27 pm
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Originally Posted by jfhscott
The return flight was packed to the gills. Interestingly, just a couple of days before, the seat map showed E+ to be pretty empty (15% full or so). I infer that it got filled up with non-elites who were ultimately accomodated in E+, suggesting that this route so far has few elites.
KWI-IAD is similar in late bookings and reservations without seat assignments, in that it attracts South Asians with paper tickets and contractors from the Gulf booking at the last minute.
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