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Old Sep 6, 2014 | 9:19 am
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Originally Posted by cmaas
With EF now blind, I'm trying to figure out true availability / upgrade probability on my ATL-AMS flight today. Upgrade list says two seats available, seat map shows two available, but if I do a dummy booking I see 'three seats available at this price'....
Normal inventory management overselling. DL thinks at least one BE seat holder will not show up for the flight. "One" is actually a pretty low overselling number. I have seen at lot higher. Once again, it is a bad idea to judge availability using seat map.
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