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Old Nov 27, 2016 | 2:23 am
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Originally Posted by cxfan1960
That can be one of the followings:
* The 1W might just be J being sold as W at the last few hours, in which case W was already oversold. They were op-upping W passengers before boarding.
* There might be Y->W instant upgrades that hadn't been processed, and they had to op-up W passengers to make room for such upgrades.
* Or perhaps others...
It is difficult to imagine CX op-upping passengers for no reason.

I think you're right, 1W should mean the actual PEY cabin's full, as there are few seats left in J cabin and CX surely wouldn't mind to sell some PEY cabin at full W fare and op-up some PEY pax to J
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