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Jul 21, 2015 | 7:48 am

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Originally Posted by oliver2002

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).

Thanks, that's interesting. And the cache business is why Kayak et al occasionally disappoint.

But I'm a bit confused by "time-out": I'm guessing that is when Lufthansa asks me to start again - but does the system wait for the midnight sweep to restore the seat I (almost) took?

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