Delta flight 143 august 22
May 26, 2021, 9:35 am
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Delta flight 143 august 22
Greetings I am trying to book Delta 143 from AMS to SEA on August 22 in Delta one. Says it is sold out and possibly oversold by 5? This seems odd. Then it looks like they might be swapping planes so could that possibly be the reason? Maybe they have not released the seats yet? Tried calling but over 4 hour wait on the diamond line. Thanks
May 26, 2021, 9:58 am
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It's also zero'd out on 8/5, 8/16, 8/28, and 8/30. They dropped AMS-PDX flight for August last weekend. Also, AMS-DTW/MSP had frequency reductions for August last weekend. These may have displaced pax onto AMS-SEA flights.
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May 26, 2021, 10:21 pm
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I noticed that seat charts show that on transatlantic flights to AMS D1 is much fuller this summer than Main or C+. On a couple of flights I checked D1 was at 75% capacity (with icons indicating that people actually had reserved those seats rather than that they were x-ed out) whereas Main and C+ was at 15% tops. Very unusual.
May 26, 2021, 10:48 pm
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I noticed that seat charts show that on transatlantic flights to AMS D1 is much fuller this summer than Main or C+. On a couple of flights I checked D1 was at 75% capacity (with icons indicating that people actually had reserved those seats rather than that they were x-ed out) whereas Main and C+ was at 15% tops. Very unusual.
May 29, 2021, 12:18 am
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I'm on that same route August 6th. They just switched the aircraft earlier this week from an A330-300, to an A330-900 neo. So it was a real nice surprise to get a D1 suite.
May 29, 2021, 3:31 am
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There's now some inventory on flights on 8/5 and 8/16, so they may open up some on 8/22 as they rebook people around due to schedule changes. However, there's quite a few dates in July and August in the SEA-AMS direction now zero'd out in J. Flights through September 8th are currently on A330-900neo vs A330-300. However, the main issue is likely all the flight cancellations to Europe and consolidation of already booked tickets as there's not that big of a difference in number of D1 seats (5) between the aircraft.