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
Mar 27, 2019 | 3:00 am
#601
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester/London
Programs: Skywards Plat, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,303
EK 3720DXB
03/30/19 9:30 AMBKK
03/30/19 6:40 PM388
Daily
73% / 18mJ7 C7 I7 O7 P3 Y9 E9 R9 W9 M9 B9 U9K9 Q9 L9 T9 V9 X3
Mar 31, 2019 | 1:15 pm
#602
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Tokyo
Programs: Qatar Airways Gold, Singapore air Kris flyer,Emirates Silver, Etihad Gold
Posts: 359
Request for:
- Date of flight (departure date) 08-04-2019
- Flight Number EK748
- Origin TUN
- Destination DXB
&
Request for:
- Date of flight (departure date) 14-04-2019
- Flight Number EK747
- Origin DXB
- Destination TUN
Thank you.
- Date of flight (departure date) 08-04-2019
- Flight Number EK748
- Origin TUN
- Destination DXB
&
Request for:
- Date of flight (departure date) 14-04-2019
- Flight Number EK747
- Origin DXB
- Destination TUN
Thank you.
Mar 31, 2019 | 9:04 pm
#603
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester/London
Programs: Skywards Plat, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,303
04/08/19 2:05 PMDXB
04/08/19 11:10 PM77W
M,Th,Sa
81% / 31mF2 A2 J4 C4 I4 O7 P0 Y7 E7 R7 W7 M7B7 U7 K7 H7 Q7 L7 T7 V7 X7
You are in for a nice treat flying out of TUN.
Apr 1, 2019 | 12:32 am
#604
Ambassador, Emirates
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: LGW / AMS / CPT
Programs: SA KL BA EK
Posts: 4,836
Strange. More J Saver (O) than J Flex / Flex+ availability? Also Y7 to X7 seems strange. I would not trust that result.
Apr 1, 2019 | 1:47 am
#605
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 10,047
I haven't seen "H" on any results recently but they appear on the EF result supplied by Will08.
Apr 1, 2019 | 3:58 am
#607
Ambassador, Emirates
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: LGW / AMS / CPT
Programs: SA KL BA EK
Posts: 4,836
That flight is awfully empty! (but still a week to go)
Apr 1, 2019 | 4:22 am
#608
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
Depends on how you define "awfully". It could be just 20 seats available across all classes. It could even be just 11 seats available (4 in F and 7 in J), and EK willing to oversell Y
Apr 1, 2019 | 8:16 am
#609
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester/London
Programs: Skywards Plat, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,303
When trying to search the evening EK flight out of BKK it does not appear in the results at all.
Apr 1, 2019 | 8:17 am
#610
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester/London
Programs: Skywards Plat, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,303
It is a great point as well, which in reality makes this thread completely pointless as we are all always guessing and just hoping for the best..
Apr 2, 2019 | 12:03 am
#611
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 10,047
I think it disappears when the runway work is being done, then returns at a new time of 03:30, maybe to fill the slot vacated by EK418/419 which went DXB-BKK-SYD but is stopping pretty soon.
Apr 2, 2019 | 2:02 am
#612
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester/London
Programs: Skywards Plat, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,303
No, EK373, for this Thursday, I have checked a few times and it never shows up!
Apr 16, 2019 | 4:45 am
#613
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester, UK
Programs: Emirates Skywards (Gold), Hilton (Diamond), Radisson (Gold)
Posts: 376
Can I get a check for EK19 on 18th April please?
I'm fairly sure this flight is completely full, which normally would have me rubbing my hands together as I am Gold and I have a Flex Plus ticket, but I had auto-upgrade set and it seems to have disappeared without an upgrade being confirmed.
Should I:
- Rely on an op-up
- Go on the miles upgrade wait-list at the airport (big waste of miles in prime op-up territory)
- Look for space on the flight before or after?
My schedule is pretty easy and its not really the end of the world if I gamble and don't get an upgrade.
I'm fairly sure this flight is completely full, which normally would have me rubbing my hands together as I am Gold and I have a Flex Plus ticket, but I had auto-upgrade set and it seems to have disappeared without an upgrade being confirmed.
Should I:
- Rely on an op-up
- Go on the miles upgrade wait-list at the airport (big waste of miles in prime op-up territory)
- Look for space on the flight before or after?
My schedule is pretty easy and its not really the end of the world if I gamble and don't get an upgrade.
Apr 16, 2019 | 5:06 am
#614
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
Can I get a check for EK19 on 18th April please?
I'm fairly sure this flight is completely full, which normally would have me rubbing my hands together as I am Gold and I have a Flex Plus ticket, but I had auto-upgrade set and it seems to have disappeared without an upgrade being confirmed.
Should I:
- Rely on an op-up
- Go on the miles upgrade wait-list at the airport (big waste of miles in prime op-up territory)
- Look for space on the flight before or after?
My schedule is pretty easy and its not really the end of the world if I gamble and don't get an upgrade.
I'm fairly sure this flight is completely full, which normally would have me rubbing my hands together as I am Gold and I have a Flex Plus ticket, but I had auto-upgrade set and it seems to have disappeared without an upgrade being confirmed.
Should I:
- Rely on an op-up
- Go on the miles upgrade wait-list at the airport (big waste of miles in prime op-up territory)
- Look for space on the flight before or after?
My schedule is pretty easy and its not really the end of the world if I gamble and don't get an upgrade.
Apr 16, 2019 | 5:49 am
#615
Ambassador, Emirates
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: LGW / AMS / CPT
Programs: SA KL BA EK
Posts: 4,836
Can I get a check for EK19 on 18th April please?
I'm fairly sure this flight is completely full, which normally would have me rubbing my hands together as I am Gold and I have a Flex Plus ticket, but I had auto-upgrade set and it seems to have disappeared without an upgrade being confirmed.
Should I:
- Rely on an op-up
- Go on the miles upgrade wait-list at the airport (big waste of miles in prime op-up territory)
- Look for space on the flight before or after?
My schedule is pretty easy and its not really the end of the world if I gamble and don't get an upgrade.
I'm fairly sure this flight is completely full, which normally would have me rubbing my hands together as I am Gold and I have a Flex Plus ticket, but I had auto-upgrade set and it seems to have disappeared without an upgrade being confirmed.
Should I:
- Rely on an op-up
- Go on the miles upgrade wait-list at the airport (big waste of miles in prime op-up territory)
- Look for space on the flight before or after?
My schedule is pretty easy and its not really the end of the world if I gamble and don't get an upgrade.
A few of us here will - from time to time - do flight load requests. But you need to give us the route as well as the flight number. EF wants both and although we can of course do a flight lookup, its reasonable for you to give us that information.