Sep 14, 2017, 7:20 am
Last edit by: Flame3601
Information on Load requests
The number of seats for sale for a flight are available via ExpertFlyer.com, a subscription-based service with a 5-day free trial. A subscription is $9.99/month and can be enabled and disabled any time. It is encouraged to subscribe rather than post repeatedly in this thread.
NB: Op-up changes or overselling of a flight cannot be determined with certainty from this information, only inferred to be more or less probable.
For a once-off load request please follow these guidelines:
Flight loads >7 days out are not very useful, as the airline could still sell many seats, unless availability of a specific fare bucket (e.g. Business Saver upgrade) is requested. If you wish to know the general flight load please don't post >7 days before departure.
When requesting a load please provide the following information:
- Date of flight (departure date)
- Flight Number
- Origin
- Destination
These four fields are mandatory in searching on ExpertFlyer (see screenshot below) and it isn't fair to except those who pay for their subscriptions to also have to go look up which cities a specific flight number is from and to (also some flight numbers are onward flights (5th freedom routes, e.g. CMB-MLE) and loads will differ significantly depending on which sector of the flight is checked.
The number of seats for sale for a flight are available via ExpertFlyer.com, a subscription-based service with a 5-day free trial. A subscription is $9.99/month and can be enabled and disabled any time. It is encouraged to subscribe rather than post repeatedly in this thread.
NB: Op-up changes or overselling of a flight cannot be determined with certainty from this information, only inferred to be more or less probable.
For a once-off load request please follow these guidelines:
Flight loads >7 days out are not very useful, as the airline could still sell many seats, unless availability of a specific fare bucket (e.g. Business Saver upgrade) is requested. If you wish to know the general flight load please don't post >7 days before departure.
When requesting a load please provide the following information:
- Date of flight (departure date)
- Flight Number
- Origin
- Destination
These four fields are mandatory in searching on ExpertFlyer (see screenshot below) and it isn't fair to except those who pay for their subscriptions to also have to go look up which cities a specific flight number is from and to (also some flight numbers are onward flights (5th freedom routes, e.g. CMB-MLE) and loads will differ significantly depending on which sector of the flight is checked.
Flight Load Check request
Oct 22, 2017 | 10:38 pm
#271
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: MT, USA
Programs: Ex-5C club, Skymiles Gold
Posts: 454
Oct 22, 2017 | 11:47 pm
#272
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
Nov 5, 2017 | 12:56 am
#278
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: MT, USA
Programs: Ex-5C club, Skymiles Gold
Posts: 454
Welcome to Flyertalk, Andrew Kelly! This is the EK (Emirates) forum. I suggest paying for Expertflyer.com but as a soft welcome here:
VA (**) 860HKG
11/06/17 7:50 PMMEL
11/07/17 8:15 AM332
M,T,W,Th,Sa
70% / 30mJ2 C2 D0 I0 Y7 B7 H7 K7 L7 E7 N7 V0Q0 T0
VA (**) 860HKG
11/06/17 7:50 PMMEL
11/07/17 8:15 AM332
M,T,W,Th,Sa
70% / 30mJ2 C2 D0 I0 Y7 B7 H7 K7 L7 E7 N7 V0Q0 T0
Nov 11, 2017 | 3:50 am
#280
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
ek376 - j7 c7 i7 o7 p6 y9 e9 r9 w9 m9 b9 u9 k9 h9 q9 l9 t0 v0 x0
Nov 11, 2017 | 2:44 pm
#282
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: MT, USA
Programs: Ex-5C club, Skymiles Gold
Posts: 454
Happy travels.
Nov 11, 2017 | 3:28 pm
#283
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
With a wide-open J cabin, EK often would oversell quite a bit (basically Y + unsold J + forecast margin for no-shows/cancellations), I've seen Y over by 40 before. By that logic at the point it was over by 31 there were still 9 seats for sale.
HOWEVER, the fact that many fare classes in the Y cabin (other than Y class itself - this can be confusing) are still available at 9+ does indeed indicate that it is unlikely (but not impossible) to be oversold, though there aren't specials (X) for sale and I'm not totally up to date on fare classes, I think also no savers (T and V), but flex is wide open and there might be some savers hidden in M or Q, not sure about that - either way this is not indicative of a highly loaded flight.
Given loads I've seen recently on EK I'd expect >80% load at the minimum, with a good chance >90% for BHX, BKK could well be oversold.
Nov 12, 2017 | 8:54 am
#285
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
Please include origin and destination in future, for others: DXB-CCU