Tracking Flight Capacity
Nov 19, 2011, 12:13 pm
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Tracking Flight Capacity
Mrs. RedTop flies AC flight 7980 somewhat regularly (YYZ-RDU around 9PM). The earlier flight (7978) is around 4:45PM. If she leaves work at the earliest possible moment she is maybe 75% to get to the airport in time (she is a schoolteacher and sneaking out early isn't an option).
In general we're willing to take the risk that she will miss 7978 and have to be rebooked on 7980, and usually they will rebook you without a fee if you miss your flight, but we'll deal with the $75 SDC fee if we have to. What would be really ugly is if 7980 were full. I think there was one time she was on 7980 and got to the airport early but 7978 was full so she couldn't change.
Is there a way to find out how often 7980 is full? We book the tickets quite a way in advance, so looking a day or two ahead won't work. Is there a way to find out how full it has been on average, say, over the past year?
In general we're willing to take the risk that she will miss 7978 and have to be rebooked on 7980, and usually they will rebook you without a fee if you miss your flight, but we'll deal with the $75 SDC fee if we have to. What would be really ugly is if 7980 were full. I think there was one time she was on 7980 and got to the airport early but 7978 was full so she couldn't change.
Is there a way to find out how often 7980 is full? We book the tickets quite a way in advance, so looking a day or two ahead won't work. Is there a way to find out how full it has been on average, say, over the past year?
Nov 19, 2011, 3:36 pm
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Pretty sure you won't find any employee who is willing to give up top secret load information st any airline however, you may have a better shot at seeing if there's another WestJet exec. interested in rifling through an AC exec's trash for this kind of info
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Nov 19, 2011, 3:56 pm
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Sounds like a juicy story that I missed.
Nov 19, 2011, 8:10 pm
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