Feb 23rd YVR --> YYZ only Business left
 

Does anyone know what's happening February 23rd YVR --> YYZ?

I did manage to grab the last M fare on the 11am, but I am pretty surprised by how few seats are left. Business only except for 1 latitude seat on the 17:00 and a few Latitude on the RedEye as well.

Almost seems impossible....


http://i.imgur.com/8bWfW41l.png

Impossible! AC can never fill 458 seat planes let alone convince people to step on a 777HD! ;)

Feb. 23rd is the end of reading week for university students. You'll note that flights YYZ-YVR/YYC are also heavily booked on the preceding weekend, which corresponds to the start of reading week.

Makes sense, Thanks!

Yes, it's the end of the reading week, or known as midterm break. But does that mean that some students are paying very expensive fares in Y, B, or M classes. Those tickets must be very expensive for them.

On a related note, do students still get discounts through Travel Cuts, and if so do those fares accrue AQM/AQS?

Can I ask where you got that availability map thing? Never seen it before. Does it apply to other airlines as well? Seems like a great tool and fun for me...as a nerd.

Expertflyer.com

I ran into the same thing earlier this week trying to book a YYC-YHZ flight on the 23rd. Ended up on an ugly 12-hour YYC-YUL-YFC-YHZ odyssey but I'm hoping to get on a better routing via a same day confirmed change.

I suspect the issue is a combination of the end of reading week for university students and a popular week for family vacations with most provinces having family day on the previous Monday.

Better routing? What could be better than that? :p

I'm flying YUL-YVR (AC 183) on Feb 17, and when I booked (Y fare, more than 7 days in advance), I could only get a middle seat (at least it was a bulkhead), and it was J2 R0.

Yesterday, they upgauged to a 320, and I managed to move to an aisle seat. Today, I noticed it was Y0, because it's back to a 319. 17AF both opened up during this mess though, so I grabbed one of those :). Not that I plan on sitting that far back... But I have a suspicion quite a few people are going to be [VI]DB'd onto the later 333 flight. I imagine this is all the same reading week shenanigans.