Rediculously full flights
 

Perhaps its just me but..

In my last 10 or so flights I have noticed that every single one has left completely filled with no empty seats to speak of.

In fact over the weekend 3 of my flights were oversold and took volunteers.Bodes well for CO if this is the case systemwide (which I am sure its isn't)
Anybody else experience the same?

my flights have been pretty full but i realize that i am a sample size of one.

CO 2037 09Jun03 RDU-CLE was overbooked by 2 and this was a 10:35 AM departure (not exactly peak time). That's the only CO segment I've had this year and one of maybe 3 overbooked flights I've been on this year.

All my recent flights, which have mostly been to London have been full or almost full too. I think it could be a result of CO's schedule trimming, pushing all the people onto fewer flights.

But as FCOTSTY said, I'm also a very small sample!

Murphy's law... BumpMe! wants to be bumped, but always ends up on flights that say:
A9 D9 F0 Y9 K9 H9 V9 Q9 S9 T9 U9 L9

Doh!

I see no real trends...

30 May, CO1841 SEA-IAH: Redeye. Half full.
30 May, CO772 IAH-YYZ: Maybe 30% full, but the SARS scare was on.
4 Jun, CO1080 SEA-EWR: At least 80% full.
6 Jun, CO1227 BWI-IAH: scattering of empty seats.
6 Jun, CO778 IAH-SEA: oversold.

Please post your bump details at:

www.bumptracker.com

Ditto here but not only for CO, my flights on HP have been similar.

One benefit on international is that suprise upgrade to BF for Platinums when coach is oversold. I had that returning from London last year.

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2003-02-16
(US) 4568
CLT/RDU
overweight
985
99999.99

[This message has been edited by Skyman (edited 06-16-2003).]

Already posted bumps in bumptracker.com

Hopefully, CO is generating enough $$$ from these full flights to make a profit, or at least break even.

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Aeromexico has flown some crazy routes of late.

ABQ to ABQ seems like a sure bump!!

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(Avek00-- please e-mail me... I think you're around this thread now...)

... and not just platinums http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tongue.gif

EWR-LAX Fri Evening F Full, Coach 60%
LAX-CLE Tue night (redeye) F 50%, Coach 50%
CLE-LGA Wed morning F Full, coach about 10% (almost empty)

[This message has been edited by knit-in (edited 06-18-2003).]

As of yesterday, CO's running a 77.1% consolidated load factor for the month.