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Nov 8, 2018 | 4:15 pm

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MCI777

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Originally Posted by cova

I had been on domestic flights with empty F seats (but not lately). Best time to find a flight with empty F seats is last flight on a Saturday night. You might also get one on an RJ that has 12 F seats at off peak times.

With most flights full, non-rev'ers know the flights that are not going to be full (in coach or F) so they choose these flights.

As a person who flies non-rev occasionally, the flights that have lots of empty F seats are the ones I try to get on(as you pointed out). But I have seen a couple off peak flights that went out with really light loads in F.

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