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Old Mar 30, 2014 | 10:14 pm
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Join Date: May 2003
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Originally Posted by edgewood49
Hey PDX we are doing LAX-DXB-JNB in November was able to snag two FC award seats. Really looking forward to that flight ! Long haul but FC with a shower can not be all that bad. Took AF last year LAX-CDG great plane maybe AS will buy one !!!!
^ Awesome! We are doing LAX-DXB-BCN, then LHR-DXB-LAX on the return, in about a month with 2 of us in F, 2 in J, so we're looking forward to it as well. With so many experts on FT, it takes so much guesswork out of things!

Originally Posted by eternaltransit
Are you in J or Y? In any case, loads on LHR-DXB are generally very high in all classes, but many travellers don't assign seats until it is done for them when check-in opens. I can assure you that it would be very, very, very unlikely that the flight would only have 15 people on it...! The flight isn't going to get cancelled due to loads.
As just mentioned above, we're in F. I've been telling myself everything you mentioned, it's just weird seeing the plane so empty and recalled (albeit a month or so ago) seeing similar loads on a particular day - the plane went out half full. Still, I am fully expecting it to go out more full than it is, but have only seen 3 new people book in the past 30 days. No big deal; was just curious.

Thanks also for the terminal info. Even all of the apps, websites, etc only show 'T3' as the arrival gate - none show 'A#' or 'B#'. Again, I'm not sweating it.

Originally Posted by m3red
I did laugh at the plane being cancelled comment.
In a weird way, this comment made me feel better. Thanks for bringing me back to reality!
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