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Old Sep 19, 2012 | 9:24 pm
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Originally Posted by krpjr
Upon boarding he said business class was only 40% capacity at most...
That is not bad then. With Dullta so often the BE cabin only has one seat ever available for awards and it goes out just with one passenger in it, otherwise being completely empty (35/36), and not because no one wanted it, but because it was completedly whited out (as Dullta claims it has "no blackouts" for award travel, we all know it does have "whiteouts" when there are lots and lots of revenue seats for sale, but the award calendar is white and there is not a single award seat available - some months on many routes a good 2/3s of days+ are whited out).

So this is nothing, consider the under 3% load for DL BE so frequently (and similar I've seen for KE sometimes, where the FAs to pax ratio is often 3:1 or even 4:1), when it doesn't make any seats available (past the first one) for award booking, not at low, not at 2x mid and not at 3.5x high level, completely not at all.

Seems like AF is taking lessons from DL...but it still has a long way to go. Seems like a SkyTeam wide practice.
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