Originally Posted by
355F1
Might be a silly question...and nobody may know the answer but I figured I'd ask anyway.
When a (let's say an international) flight has people who have applied an SWU do you think RM gets some sort of notification that the flight in question now has a Waitlist? And, does this, coupled with days-til-departure, entice them to release UG inventory if there are a large number of unsold J seats?
Random question, I know.
As I post every time someone asks this question. You have a better chance of winning the lotto three times in a row then figuring out how RM decides to do things. It's basically a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. I'm not sure DL RM even knows what the computer uses to decide.
There can be an empty cabin and RM won't release anything, and there can be a nearly full cabin and they release multiple seats.