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Old Nov 2, 2017, 11:09 am
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SeattleDavid
 
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Originally Posted by roder
I'm traveling SJC-ORD-PEK in a few days.

ORD-PEK is not showing C class inventory on EF, but when I search SJC-ORD-PEK the ORD-PEK is showing C inventory, but SJC-ORD is not.

EXP desk is telling me they can't confirm the space unless BOTH segments have C available... is this true???
Generally not, unless it is all one flight number (a direct, but not nonstop flight). There should be no problem using a SWU on just one segment of two.

However, EF can be unreliable in showing C availability for single versus multiple segments and it sounds like C is available on ORD-PEK only when married with SJC-ORD, where it isn't available.
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