Originally Posted by
oliver2002
Airlines oversell by a certain degree depending on the markets. Some markets usually have flexible fares so many drop off at the last moment: in this case they do a massive oversell. If you have the start of school vacations, the people usually will take the flight, so they oversell only to the capacity to the flight, including the Y & C cabin. In SK's case I've seen that they seem to manage pretty well and don't have to leave many behind, but op-ups to Y/C are very common.
So reading you right, the oversell the "popular" flights less. And since this is a flight on a friday just before midsummer (where the flight the day after is also completely sold out) I guess they haven't oversold it so heavily.
Which I guess means, that it actually only takes one or two pax that drop off for my upgrade to come into question again.
The last time i monitored a flight was about two weeks ago. A thursday flight same route, C all packed about a week before the flight and just like that, four days before departure it all cleared with about five available seats in C. My upgrade cleared and I had a great flight and the load was completely, full not a single seat left.
So regarding the not so popular flights. Do they oversell C at all? I'm thinking there isn't really anywhere they can put anyone if they have more C pax than they have seats. So ort of gives SK pretty little wiggle room
