Originally Posted by
magnus269
Hi,
I'm looking at a certain flight on a specific day on the emirates website - it's telling me there's only 3 seats available left in J and 2 left in F and 0 left in Y.
Expertflyer, on the other hand, is telling me there is massive availability in Y - near enough to 100 seats, and 8 seats left in J.
I would have much preferred to go with Y on this flight but have been somewhat forced into purchasing a J ticket.
Is anyone able to explain the huge discrepancy between emirates and expertflyer with regards to seat availability? Would be much appreciated as I can't make heads or tails of it.
As others have said the seatmaps are not indicative of seats sold anymore especially in economy where some tickets now make you pay if you don't have status.
The numbers on EF are also the number of seats EK is willing to sell and not necessarily reflective of what is actually available because EK oversell y and j (not F like BA) on certain routes.
When booking on the EK website you should also note that when you select a certain ticket type i.e. Saver it may say 2 left but then there will likely by j flex and j flex plus left...