Originally Posted by
yerffej201
Hi guys, sorry to bring an old thread up, but I've been searching on ANA and EF, and it seems like there's no correlation between F/A space and award space!
Looking at my highly biased sample of FRA-NRT/FRA-BKK, UA only shows F space a few days in advance. Either I haven't checked carefully enough, or I'm sleep deprived from moving 1 hour forward, but it seems like UA isn't showing phantom space for these routes anymore. Furthermore, I have no idea when space is going to open up. On several dates there's F4 but there isn't any phantom space.
I thought phantom space was actual award space which would become bookable 14 days out?
what little phantom inventory that shows, normally becomes real from my observations, but 7 days out, sometimes 10. I've helped readers find LH F 7-10 days out without much hassle. sometimes it took a 'long sell' request.
United has been doing a FAR FAR better job in keeping phantom inventory off the search results. Now most UA inventory that I see for LH F is real.
I called UA yesterday just to test the idea, and when I asked about 3 different LH F that I saw for flights 5-7 days out, it was confirmed as real. Doing this because I need to do it for my own trip towards month end and wanted to test UA's new reality.