<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by QFF:
Hi,
Anyone able to explain ? I checked my economy seat location for a upcoming flight on QF 1. The seat plan (check my trip/amadeus) showed only 4 vacant economy seats on the flight.</font>
That doesn't mean there are only four seats left - they block some seats out so that they cannot be pre-allocated - exit row seats, for example - and they only preallocate a limited number of seats, leaving the rest for the system to handle - this caters for groups, families, etc.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">When checking i.t.n their site indicated that there were at least 9 seats available in several economy catagories giving total economy availability of at least 45 seats.</font>
Doesn't mean this at all - you often have situations where there might be (say) 8 seats left in economy - all of the remaining seats have been sold. But the B allocation hasn't been touched, nor has the Q allocation, or the L, N, V and S allocations, so those classes are still available to be sold.
The display will therefore be Y8 B8 Q8 L8 N8 V8 S8 - still only eight seats left though. You can't add it all together to see how many seats are left on the plane.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">No big deal-just curious why there would be such a huge discrepancy between availabilty figures on difffering web sites.</font>
It can be confusing, unless you have actually used a CRS, to read the displays. It is not something which is immediately obvious.
Dave