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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 9:15 am
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cxfan1960
 
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Originally Posted by traveler18
One situation I noticed is that often there is I class inventory in EF for LAX-HKG and then HKG-MNL - however no I inventory LAX-MNL via HKG on the same flights. They wait list even though the individual segments show 9 seats on I each.... So far, every time the WL clears a few days before the flights
This is the "married segments" mentioned earlier.

In general, married segments have lower availabilities. There are exceptions, e.g. HKG-CAN on KA.
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