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Old Jul 21, 2015 | 2:38 am
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Originally Posted by IAN-UK
How long (typically) do systems "hold" a seat for what they presume is a booking in progess?
Depends. The mass search engines (eg Kayak querying Opodo) use the cache, and don't block anything. If you are on a specific site the time out is about 5-10min, on LH its 12 min. Whatever the case, the inventory is restored at the next daily inventory sweep (midnight LT of the flight origin).
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