Interpreting J,C&I class for upgrades
Oct 7, 2006, 12:19 pm
#16
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A few days ago, a MUC-YYZ late morning flight had J4C3I0 availability, 24 hours before departure.
To me, that does not make sense. If AC and the route controller think that there may be the possibility of 4 full fare business class seats being sold in the last 24 hours, why not make the C availability equal zero. Conversely, if they feel that most of the remaining business class inventory can have discounted business class availability - that implies that AC feels that it may be difficult to even find 3 purchased C class tickets during the last 24 hours; therefore, why ishould not I>zero?
To me, that does not make sense. If AC and the route controller think that there may be the possibility of 4 full fare business class seats being sold in the last 24 hours, why not make the C availability equal zero. Conversely, if they feel that most of the remaining business class inventory can have discounted business class availability - that implies that AC feels that it may be difficult to even find 3 purchased C class tickets during the last 24 hours; therefore, why ishould not I>zero?
Oct 7, 2006, 8:29 pm
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One factor that plays into this that everyone ignores is connecting flights.
Someone may well buy a full fare J/C ticket off a connecting flight which would grab some of the inventory OR there may be a history of misconnects which leaves some seats open for J/C purchasers to not get downgraded.
Someone may well buy a full fare J/C ticket off a connecting flight which would grab some of the inventory OR there may be a history of misconnects which leaves some seats open for J/C purchasers to not get downgraded.
Oct 9, 2006, 5:30 am
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Originally Posted by Simon
One factor that plays into this that everyone ignores is connecting flights.
Someone may well buy a full fare J/C ticket off a connecting flight which would grab some of the inventory OR there may be a history of misconnects which leaves some seats open for J/C purchasers to not get downgraded.
Someone may well buy a full fare J/C ticket off a connecting flight which would grab some of the inventory OR there may be a history of misconnects which leaves some seats open for J/C purchasers to not get downgraded.
I guess that if J4C3 inventory was available on a North American AC flight, because of more connection options, the "I" inventory would likely be greater than 0?
Oct 10, 2006, 6:22 pm
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Originally Posted by Simon
One factor that plays into this that everyone ignores is connecting flights.
Someone may well buy a full fare J/C ticket off a connecting flight which would grab some of the inventory OR there may be a history of misconnects which leaves some seats open for J/C purchasers to not get downgraded.
Someone may well buy a full fare J/C ticket off a connecting flight which would grab some of the inventory OR there may be a history of misconnects which leaves some seats open for J/C purchasers to not get downgraded.
Oct 10, 2006, 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by shore9
I would be very interested to know how often AC sells 9 or more J seats within 4 days of the flight. Even 7 days within the flight.
And why the hell are you wishing for a recession?