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Old Jan 3, 2017 | 11:17 am
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skywardhunter
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Hi There,

I'll be happy to help bu EF doesn't take flight numbers. departing and arriving airports please.

Also EF does not provide loads, EF provides availability by fare bucket for purchase, which does not correspond to actual load due to over- and underselling, it is merely an indication.

Lastly you only need to use Gold Status for a guaranteed seat if the flight is sold out, you can purchase a Flex+ the regular way for any flight with availability, which is often quite possible. Also a regular Flex+ from the website may indeed be cheaper than a Gold guarantee seat as the Gold guarantee books into Y, the most expensive fare bucket, while I believe Flex+ has a total of 2 or 3 fare buckets, some of which are discounted vs Y.

Second lastly, there've been a lot of load check requests popping up on here recently, if this is going to become a thing perhaps we need a dedicated thread for it, or even better, let's not make it a thing. Looking up EF loads is still straightforward and a thread for that I think would make sense, but when it gets to requesting the actual loads from EK internally it becomes trickier, perhaps I contributed to that though when I posted loads on the other thread here a few days ago. Those loads are only available <72h before to EK staff and thus not easy to get access to.
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