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
Jan 6, 2020 | 7:52 pm
#796
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Programs: Emirates Skywards, Mileage Plus, OneWorld, Qatar Airways Privilage Club
Posts: 312
Thank you!! Just for clarification, does it mean that the flight is 77% empty in Y?
Jan 6, 2020 | 9:34 pm
#797
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Jan 6, 2020 | 9:58 pm
#798
Ambassador, Emirates
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: LGW / AMS / CPT
Programs: SA KL BA EK
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It only means that the airline is prepared to sell at least 9 seats in economy. Nothing more than that. The fact that they are prepared to sell them in quite a cheap fare bucket (L) suggests that at this moment there is quite a lot of space, but thats a guess. This availability check is really not a good prediction of how full the flight will be on the day, especially 8 days out.
Jan 7, 2020 | 8:48 am
#799
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Programs: Emirates Skywards, Mileage Plus, OneWorld, Qatar Airways Privilage Club
Posts: 312
It only means that the airline is prepared to sell at least 9 seats in economy. Nothing more than that. The fact that they are prepared to sell them in quite a cheap fare bucket (L) suggests that at this moment there is quite a lot of space, but thats a guess. This availability check is really not a good prediction of how full the flight will be on the day, especially 8 days out.
Jan 8, 2020 | 7:30 am
#801
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Programs: Emirates Skywards, Mileage Plus, OneWorld, Qatar Airways Privilage Club
Posts: 312
Jan 9, 2020 | 6:30 pm
#803
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Posts: 10,050
If you do a dummy reward booking and see availability for Saver Rewards (not Flex) then an upgrade is also available as they both come from D bucket.
Jan 9, 2020 | 8:15 pm
#804
Join Date: Feb 2018
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Jan 9, 2020 | 8:17 pm
#805
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Jan 9, 2020 | 9:39 pm
#806
Ambassador, Emirates
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Jan 11, 2020 | 3:23 pm
#809
Join Date: Jan 2020
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 2
Hey, wondering if someone could check the availability of these flights for me please?
- Date of flight: 16 Jan 2020
- Flight Number: EK449
- Origin: AKL
- Destination: DXB
- Date of flight: 17 Jan 2020
- Flight Number: EK29
- Origin: DXB
- Destination: LHR
Thanks!
- Date of flight: 16 Jan 2020
- Flight Number: EK449
- Origin: AKL
- Destination: DXB
- Date of flight: 17 Jan 2020
- Flight Number: EK29
- Origin: DXB
- Destination: LHR
Thanks!