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Originally Posted by B747-437B
(Post 22520944)
Or you can set up an Expertflyer alert for your already booked seat number. When they clear the seat to assign you a new one, it remains open for a brief moment until reassigned and Expertflyer will email you an alert notification. Works for me every time!
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Originally Posted by Flywiz
(Post 22514946)
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Morning of travel, my Economy pre-booked seat number disappeared from MMB. So I figured demand must be huge for Economy and hopeless for Business - why else would they OpUp 12 hours before flight time. I checked MMB again at T-3, and my original seat had reappeared, EF showed all Business 0 and Economy 1. In the lounge or On board, no business seats were available for upgrade. Now I get that one of two things happened. 1. Lots of last minute Business customers turned up, or 2. Several Economy cancellations and I didn't make the cut for an OpUp. But that is unlikely since Business went full and I did see few others trying to upgrade with miles in the lounge and told it was full. There’s another simple reason for the above….. change of equipment. When the aircraft is changed for capacity or an operational reason (e.g. from a 777-200 to 777-300ER or one type of A380 to another) (i) more seats will become available in Y and C and (ii) if the seat no you initially held is not available in the new aircraft, you may not get a seat assigned until you enter the lounge or get to the gate. |
Originally Posted by A351
(Post 22521128)
Going back to the original point of one’s seat disappearing and getting reassigned or initially assigned seat being empty when you get on the plane……
There’s another simple reason for the above….. change of equipment. When the aircraft is changed for capacity or an operational reason (e.g. from a 777-200 to 777-300ER or one type of A380 to another) (i) more seats will become available in Y and C and (ii) if the seat no you initially held is not available in the new aircraft, you may not get a seat assigned until you enter the lounge or get to the gate. |
Originally Posted by B747-437B
(Post 22520944)
Or you can set up an Expertflyer alert for your already booked seat number. When they clear the seat to assign you a new one, it remains open for a brief moment until reassigned and Expertflyer will email you an alert notification. Works for me every time!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/emira...de-alerts.html |
Originally Posted by Flywiz
(Post 22521316)
Good point. Wasn't the case in this instance though.
This happens when: The delayed flight was running a lot later than anticipated. A connecting flight is put on 'hold' as it approached DXB and therefore passengers connecting won't make the connection in time. A connecting flight was re-assigned a new gate at a different terminal to the original (e.g. from A to B) or off-gate parking (this could add a good 30 to 45 min delay)! In the 'good old days', EK would have held the departing flight for passengers connecting from a delayed one but no more! If a departing flight is delayed, it will miss it's allocated take-off slot. Getting a new one will depend on not only the availability of a new one but also the landing slot at the destination based on the new arrival time. You can imagine the domino effect this will have! You were very unlucky! |
Originally Posted by A351
(Post 22537232)
.....In the 'good old days', EK would have held the departing flight for passengers connecting from a delayed one but no more! If a departing flight is delayed, it will miss it's allocated take-off slot. Getting a new one will depend on not only the availability of a new one but also the landing slot at the destination based on the new arrival time. You can imagine the domino effect this will have!....
Am sure it doesn't always happen, but it definitely does happen sometimes. |
Very surprised on my recent trip to DUB (BKK-DXB-DUB-DXB-BKK). Was op-upped to J BKK-DXB and DXB-BKK and used miles to upgrade DUB-DXB.
So all in all very nice and I didn't bother checking in advance one little bit. Life's too short for that. But I was told on entry to the lounge in Terminal C, a couple of hours before the flight to BKK (a 380), that I had been op-upped Que Sera, Sera. |
Originally Posted by Budley
(Post 22549813)
Very surprised on my recent trip to DUB (BKK-DXB-DUB-DXB-BKK). Was op-upped to J BKK-DXB and DXB-BKK and used miles to upgrade DUB-DXB.
Originally Posted by Budley
(Post 22352182)
I've been Skywards Gold for several years now, but with the continuing decimation of Skywards, I don't think I will bother to attain Gold (or even Silver) for next year (I have about 19,000 status miles so far this year, and no plans for further travel on EK).
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