I concur with goldflyer.

I hope through my opinions of the beer drinkers I have not offended anyone but back to the thread at hand. I Checked the ITN site twice in the last 8 hours and on the second attempt 5 U seats became available. Rang QF and requested one, was told he was showing zero seats. Went hmmmm, hung up. Checked site again and zero seats were showing. It could not have been my mistake as I printed the ITN site before closing. Anyone else had weird info from ITN?

Meloz

My guess is that they were released by yield management and you saw them before they went to waitlisted passengers.

Dave

Dave

Your theory has merit, however, would that not affect the J and D seats which have, give or take had a rise and fall of 1 or 2 over the past 2 days. Basically Business class availability has not changed since the hiccup.

Meloz

Depends on how the seats became available. If - as an example - two confirmed U cancelled, along with a D and two J's - then 5 seats would have become available all of a sudden, and YM could have allocated them all as U class, all of them going to waitlisted paxs.

Dave

I just gave the premium desk a call as I munched my lunch.

The waitlist for "U" is empty. Economy is wiiiide open.

J7 D6 is important. Why? Because yield management doesn't believe it can sell most of those 7 seats in J for full price - so 6 of them are discounted.

I was told my chances of getting a U seat released on Thursday afternoon would be good, if there were still 4 or 5 D seats available.

Now I'm going to stay on, and off, topic with this post, because I'm still looking forward to those 17 beers.

And yes, Dave, I will get a FBH if I drink those in one session. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I think I'd love a job in QF yield/revenue management just so I could play with the availabilities somehow and see the reaction in FT! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

No, just kidding.

Oh, just to stay on topic, I understand O class is rock bottom discount.. but is it the lowest (I mean I believe O ranks in lower than N). Anyone know the lowest priority revenue booking class at QF? (so ignore the nonrev/award classes)?

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RichardMEL, UA 1K
A Star Alliance Member.

Many thanks Mr Roo

Mr Roo wins the beer. 1 U class became available at 08:30. Many thanks to all for the help.

Meloz

I get tied up at a conference for a few days and this is what happens???

Congrats on the U seat! A great ending, especially for thadocta http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif.

"O" is the lowest - the ITN rankings are firstly in order of class (starting with F, J and Y), then within class.

In domestic, N, S and O (that I'm aware of) are "use it or lose it". "S" is the instant purchase fare available over the 'phone.