WBC Availability
Jul 23, 2003 | 2:49 pm
#1
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Join Date: May 2002
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WBC Availability
I've been through the threads explaining how to interpret Galileo, but do not see the answer to my question. Here is a flight I have next June:
1 DTW LGW 2135#1005 NW 32 J4 C0 Z0 YC BC MC HC QC VC D10*C
I know what the the letters mean and I know what the "4" and "0"s means after the letters, but what do the "C"s mean? Does this say that there are 10 award WBC seats available?
I have 4 standard award seats booked on this flight already (booked 352 days in advance) but never once saw a WBC available. I'd still like to try to get us up there. Any suggestions?!?
Thanks!
1 DTW LGW 2135#1005 NW 32 J4 C0 Z0 YC BC MC HC QC VC D10*C
I know what the the letters mean and I know what the "4" and "0"s means after the letters, but what do the "C"s mean? Does this say that there are 10 award WBC seats available?
I have 4 standard award seats booked on this flight already (booked 352 days in advance) but never once saw a WBC available. I'd still like to try to get us up there. Any suggestions?!?
Thanks!
Jul 23, 2003 | 3:05 pm
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: DUS
Posts: 4,004
D10 stands for the equipment used on the flight, which is a DC 10.
Right now NW only sells Full Fare Business Class on that flight ( J class ),all other fareclasses are not open yet.The flight is too far out and NW will decide later how to sell it.
Galileo does not necessarily give you an idea how full the flight is, this flight is a good example.
If you get the same line two days before departure the flight is likely to be sold out.For example in Germany KLM and NW have a highly popular last minute booking engine, so they open up every flight exactly 10 days before departure, on the same day you can book flights using the last minute booking engine.Up to that date they sometimes sell out the flight and decide to open up fareclasses again, sometimes all fare classes stay open all the time, comes down to Yield Management and their decision.
Right now NW only sells Full Fare Business Class on that flight ( J class ),all other fareclasses are not open yet.The flight is too far out and NW will decide later how to sell it.
Galileo does not necessarily give you an idea how full the flight is, this flight is a good example.
If you get the same line two days before departure the flight is likely to be sold out.For example in Germany KLM and NW have a highly popular last minute booking engine, so they open up every flight exactly 10 days before departure, on the same day you can book flights using the last minute booking engine.Up to that date they sometimes sell out the flight and decide to open up fareclasses again, sometimes all fare classes stay open all the time, comes down to Yield Management and their decision.