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
May 13, 2018, 2:09 am
#511
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 83
Thanks for that, pity it doesnt show aircraft type
May 13, 2018, 2:17 am
#512
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May 20, 2018, 9:50 am
#514
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Glasgow
Programs: Skywards
Posts: 20
Apologies if this has been asked and answered before - my search of the forum returned zero results.
Could someone please explain to me what the letters before each of the numbers mean please? I know F, J and Y but I'm clueless, and interested to know to what the others are.
F2 A0 J0 C0 I0 O0 P0 Y5 E5 R5 W5 M0 B0 U0 K0 H0 Q0 L0 T0 V0 X0
Thank you.
Could someone please explain to me what the letters before each of the numbers mean please? I know F, J and Y but I'm clueless, and interested to know to what the others are.
F2 A0 J0 C0 I0 O0 P0 Y5 E5 R5 W5 M0 B0 U0 K0 H0 Q0 L0 T0 V0 X0
Thank you.
May 20, 2018, 10:28 am
#515
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: LGW / AMS / CPT
Programs: SA KL BA EK
Posts: 4,273
Apologies if this has been asked and answered before - my search of the forum returned zero results.
Could someone please explain to me what the letters before each of the numbers mean please? I know F, J and Y but I'm clueless, and interested to know to what the others are.
F2 A0 J0 C0 I0 O0 P0 Y5 E5 R5 W5 M0 B0 U0 K0 H0 Q0 L0 T0 V0 X0
Thank you.
Could someone please explain to me what the letters before each of the numbers mean please? I know F, J and Y but I'm clueless, and interested to know to what the others are.
F2 A0 J0 C0 I0 O0 P0 Y5 E5 R5 W5 M0 B0 U0 K0 H0 Q0 L0 T0 V0 X0
Thank you.
The numbers behind the letters are the number the airline will sell in that bucket, but the maximum shown is 4 for First, 7 for Business and 9 for Economy buckets. And the numbers in a specific cabin are not additive, i.e. in your example the airline will sell 5 economy tickets, not 20. But they will sell them at the W ‘price’ (or above). Business is sold out, First has 2 tickets for sale (at the highest fare).
May 20, 2018, 2:07 pm
#516
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Glasgow
Programs: Skywards
Posts: 20
These are what are commonly called ‘fare buckets’. As we all know, not everyone in a particular ‘cabin ‘ pays the same fare. ‘Special’, ‘Saver’, ‘Flex’ and ‘Flex+’ are easily recognised but even within these there are different fares as shown by the ‘fare buckets’. F and A are First class, J, C, I, O and P are Business and the rest are Economy.
The numbers behind the letters are the number the airline will sell in that bucket, but the maximum shown is 4 for First, 7 for Business and 9 for Economy buckets. And the numbers in a specific cabin are not additive, i.e. in your example the airline will sell 5 economy tickets, not 20. But they will sell them at the W ‘price’ (or above). Business is sold out, First has 2 tickets for sale (at the highest fare).
Jun 16, 2018, 3:43 am
#519
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: UK
Programs: Etihad Gold, Qatar Gold, flying Blue, Falcon, Lufthansa, Eva
Posts: 1,428
I notice you have posted this twice and right at the start of the other thread is
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:
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:
Jul 19, 2018, 4:24 am
#522
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: Emirates Skywards Gold, Jet Airways JetPrivilege Platinum
Posts: 88
Flight Avail
I was checking availability for EK573 CCU-DXB and EK215 DXB-LAX for 12Oct and 13Oct.
Both flights showing as F2 A2 J4 C4 I4 O7 P0 Y7 E7 R7 W7 M7B7 U7 K7 H7 Q7 L7 T7 V7 X7
Doesnt it seem too far out for the flights to be so full already?
Both flights showing as F2 A2 J4 C4 I4 O7 P0 Y7 E7 R7 W7 M7B7 U7 K7 H7 Q7 L7 T7 V7 X7
Doesnt it seem too far out for the flights to be so full already?
Jul 19, 2018, 4:41 am
#523
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 9,307
I'm seeing F4, A4, J6, Y, E, R, W, M all 9 on EK573 and EK215 wide open with F4, A4, J, C, I, O all 7 and Economy all 9s down to X, so maybe not as full as you think.
Odd thing is that you show "H" class which doesn't show for me. I wonder why that is.
Odd thing is that you show "H" class which doesn't show for me. I wonder why that is.
Jul 19, 2018, 9:55 am
#524
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Jul 20, 2018, 8:10 am
#525
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 9,307
I thought EK didn't have different "sales cities" and married segment logic can't be the reason as the poster gave figures for the individual legs so that's what I looked at. I didn't use Expert Flyer but I'm surprised there are different sets of figures out there.