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Old Jan 25, 2018 | 8:57 am
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Originally Posted by Antarius
Good luck!

I am on ORD-PEK on 1/27.. that is J5 as well, hoping for that to clear.
Originally Posted by moonwoo
Do you know if the PEK route is low volume? I travel to Korea several times a year and in October, I decided to fly through PEK on the way back (PEK-DFW). My upgrade (miles plus copay) cleared a few days prior to departure but that J class was completely empty. I was in the back cabin of the 788 and I was the only one except for someone who appeared to be one of the FAs mother. I also walked through the entire J cabin to find only 3 people in the front cabin also... That was a huge contrast to the DFW ICN which was completely full
We flew ORD-PEK and our upgrades didn't clear, in fact, we were #5-6 on the upgrade list. On the return, the PEK-DFW was wide open in J, when it went out they had 9 open seats, but we cleared on the PEK-ORD flight and it had 1 open seat on it in J. The PEK-LAX was full in J on our departure date. So if we didn't clear on the PEK-ORD I would have changed it to the PEK-DFW.
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