Originally Posted by
kiwiandrew
I think that perhaps there is some misunderstanding regarding how an availability display works , it is not cumulative , ie , if you see
Y7 M7 T7 U5 N5 L3 Q2 S2 K2 H0 V0 O0 W0
that does not mean that there are 7 + 7 + 7 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 2 +2 ( total 40 ) seats unsold in the economy cabin ( in fact with overbooking practices it does not necessarily mean that there are any seats unsold* ) - the odds are that if someone booked 2 K class seats the Q and S would also disappear and possibly some of the other subclasses would reduce in number . So the number of seats 'available' for sale might have been a much lower number than first glance would indicate.
*Back when I was in the industry I can recall talking to an 'insider' at an airline with whom our company had a close relationship - the availability display showed quite similar to the one above , however , the flight was already oversold by about 50 seats - this was on a sector with a very high historic no-show rate , sure enough my pax reported that on his flight there were several empty seats
Yep, I know that if it shows 7 + 7 + 7 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 2 +2 that doesn't mean that 40 seats are empty in Economy.
See what I understood from this (F0 A0 C7 J7 Z6 I3 P2) was -
First is sold out and has no seats. Since I and P are showing 3 and 2 seats for sale and C J & Z are showing the maximum allowed (7) I had assumed that Business is more or less empty as they are showing I & P which is their lowest booking classes for Premiere.
Now if the same flight shows this F0 A0 C2 J2 Z0 I0 P0 I think its fair to assume that the flight is running on heavy load. As they are only selling 2 seats at a time in business and the lower fare business is sold out.
But my original question was that a flight showing C7 J7 Z6 I3 P2 in the morning at 10am and at check in there are no seats free in business.
Also (K) class is one of the lowest fares on the LHR-DEL route. So if an airline is showing one of the lowest booking classes available then I would have thought its fair to assume that the flight is running on low load?
So is Jet opening lower class seats at the last minute and successfully selling them?