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Old Apr 2, 2019 | 8:08 pm
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Originally Posted by carrotjuice
SIN-CDG waitlisted (only long haul route waitlistable for J saver!) on 29 March for departure next day. Confirmed within 3 hours after a quick phone call to SQ. J was 80% full hence very surprised SQ confirmed it - wasn’t at all expecting it to.
80% load in J when flight went out indicates quite a few seats left for sale so within 24hrs to departure it would have been a silly Revenue Mgmt decision not to clear the award in Biz (F would be a different story). Though stranger things have happened before.
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