C Inventory for NRT destinations
May 17, 2008, 9:48 am
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C Inventory for NRT destinations
I am getting ready to book into Cat L for BOS-JFK (or ORD)-NRT-MNL. I checked on EF and they list no C availability on my dates. Any idea when C inventory opens?
May 17, 2008, 9:54 am
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C inventory may open up at anytime between now and just before flight time. There are no guarantees however that C inventory will open up.
May 17, 2008, 10:12 am
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What day of the week are you flying?
May 17, 2008, 11:15 am
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In general, NRT seems to be one of the toughest destinations for C inventory. The only eVIP that has not cleared for me in something like 4 years was SJC-NRT.
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May 17, 2008, 11:23 am
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I am asking because when I booked my previous trip (that I took in March 08 but booked in October 07) C inventory was immediately available. I just thought it was rather odd that it wasn't available 10 months out.
May 17, 2008, 11:58 am
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There may well have been a couple of C seats available when the flight was loaded into the system but they are already booked.
May 17, 2008, 1:00 pm
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i was waitlisted on both sides from DFW and both cleared. one, about 5 days and the other was about 2 or 3 days before departure
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May 17, 2008, 2:14 pm
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May 17, 2008, 5:18 pm
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My experience with C inventory to NRT is that it's only available in advance on Tuesday and Wednesday flights. I just booked 2 RT to NRT using eVIPs for Sept - There was fairly good availability on Tue and Wed from Sept onwards, but nothing over the summer months. I looked pretty far out into the future and this Tue/Wed trend seemed to hold.
May 17, 2008, 6:57 pm
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My experience with C inventory to NRT is that it's only available in advance on Tuesday and Wednesday flights. I just booked 2 RT to NRT using eVIPs for Sept - There was fairly good availability on Tue and Wed from Sept onwards, but nothing over the summer months. I looked pretty far out into the future and this Tue/Wed trend seemed to hold.
Could be, but since there are none on the surrounding dates for a couple weeks then they must have just not released inventory.
May 17, 2008, 7:07 pm
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May 17, 2008, 11:55 pm
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In my limited experience, I am 3 for 3 so far on ORD-NRT, NRT-ORD and now JFK-NRT upgrades (one NRT-LAX on waitlist). Last time I checked on EF, there was no C availability for a month around my travel date when I was booking. So just gotta do the usual (a suggestion confirmed by the folks here) to fly on a day with likely less business travel, and try to book a flight that is at least J7 D7 if possible, and hopefully even showing I inventory, and you should have a decent chance clearing the waitlist (unless you have no status, that may make it tough).
May 18, 2008, 8:12 am
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I assume the new configurations, with the 5% increase in business class capacity, will help. But I assume it won't help on advance availability until they complete the re-config and can load all flights with 37 available seats.
May 19, 2008, 5:17 am
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I too have been following C availibility from US to NRT for a flight in February and until 2 weeks ago, they had lots of C seats on Tuesdays and Wednesdays as some have already pointed out. Then all of a sudden they were all gone. It showed 0 for all the dates around end of January and begenning of Feb. Very strange. I should have booked my ticket but I didn't think it would go from showing 7 to 0 for all the flights around my dates. Lesson learned.
