Originally Posted by
Calchas
Oh I'm sorry, I misapprehended.
Possibly the agent was in a different sales office to the one you are looking at on EF (which is either USA or UK)---availability differs by location (well, it will be the same within Europe but it might differ between LON and NYC, for instance).
However I9 to J0 is one hell of a difference, unless there are very specific reasons not to sell any more seats in a certain market. My suspicion is that the agent made a mistake and was looking at a different flight.
In principle the point of a GDS is that there is no lag, otherwise two people could buy the same seat at once.
Well.. this infobit came from a BA agent@LAX (when I was checking in for my flight). I wasn't sure if I will be able to make my connection at LHR so I decided to look into "what if" scenario.
She was definitely looking at the right flight because she confirmed it with flight time and flight number. However, she couldn't not see open space whereas EF was showing plenty of space. Weird and worrisome!