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Old Mar 26, 2017, 9:30 pm
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Originally Posted by Jumper Jack
156 Looks empty as a whistle. Only 2 on the waitlist with 24 booked.
This is actually proving to be quite useful for me to track which day is best to buy flex on 156 for.

Its actually interesting how they have not cleared the two people on the wait list. Do they honestly think 16 people are going to buy J in the next five hours?
Even if R is positive at T-24 hours up to around gate control time, if one does OLCI and you choose to eUpgrade during the OLCI process, one is waitlisted. Many just happily do that without knowing (or caring) to stop the OLCI process, go to their eUp page to confirm the eupgrade, and then restarting the OLCI process. This is one way someone is not cleared and appears in the waitlist even though R has positive space. I'm not saying this is necessarily the reason for what you are seeing, but I am just saying this is one possibility.
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