Just looking on AOW for my upcoming flight YYC - LHR April 1st. It is showing:

J9 C4 Y6 M3 B0 H0
V0 Q0 L0 T0

Clearly a very full flight - though interestingly I get a total price of $740USD for YYC-LHR and back to YVR on 8th April. I would have thought it would be much higher given that one leg is M class?

My real question though was I am surprised it shows Y6 and M3. I thought it would always show Y9 when there are any other seats left in the other fare classes, i.e. Y9 M3 as they would obviously be happy to sell the M seats as Y fares.
Also C has gone from 6 to 4 in the last week. What happened to those two seats? We are not in the seven day window so no SE can have upgraded in the last week. What else is pulled from C?

No real concern to me, the fuller the plane gets the more chance of an operational upgrade I live in hope.

For (1) the M inventory is not held separately, i.e. they have 6 more seats to sell including 3 they are willing to sell as M. So the M's can be sold as either M's or Y's

For (2) (i) rewards seats would affect C inventory, (ii) RTW's are (probably) pulled from C as well (iii) there are published C class fares on certain routes although I don't believe your route is one of them.

You don't necessary have to pull a seat from the C class inventory for it to go up/down. Many factors come into play. If the flight is overbooked, AC will sometimes zero out C class just accomodate comp upgrades on the day of departure [happens mainly on domestic flights] or if "J" is starting to sell, then they would decrease the number of "C" available so only people paying full J will have access to those seats. Remember, AC's system haven't changed a bit since the new upgrade rules were implemented, it's still the same crappy one.


[This message has been edited by Empress (edited 03-13-2002).]