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Old Aug 13, 2020, 4:15 am
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'Your flight to X is busy...

... and we'd like to invite you to check in your hand baggage free of charge.'

Looks like flight loads are going up 😁.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 4:18 am
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What is the 'X' out of interest...?
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 4:20 am
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Originally Posted by firstlight
... and we'd like to invite you to check in your hand baggage free of charge.'

Looks like flight loads are going up 😁.
or the other 5 due out that day have been cancelled!
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 4:21 am
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I had this message LHR JMK 4 weeks ago
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 4:27 am
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Originally Posted by mikeyfly
What is the 'X' out of interest...?
FCO
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 4:29 am
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I'm expecting this message for our flight to JTR. And the return on the 29th looks virtually sold out...
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 5:02 am
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I wouldn’t read too much into this. I got it for a LHR-CDG last Saturday that I would say was 60% full.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 5:35 am
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I got this for both my TXL-LHR flights during the past few weeks, which were fairly close to full. CE was at about 75% on both flights.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 5:43 am
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Had this on every flight in the last couple of months.

Basically, almost every flight ex-LON is full, mainly because there are so few flights compared to normal. Some returns at the start of the holidays less so.

The good thing is due to it being mostly leisure pax, overhead space is plentiful right now.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 7:44 am
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Was talking to Cabin Crew on my very empty flight back from Ibiza on Monday evening.

They were telling me that Turkey and Greece flights are packed. Think he said he'd done a Bodrum run on the Friday or Saturday and CE was back to the Emergency Exits.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 8:10 am
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Originally Posted by bhbloke
Was talking to Cabin Crew on my very empty flight back from Ibiza on Monday evening.

They were telling me that Turkey and Greece flights are packed. Think he said he'd done a Bodrum run on the Friday or Saturday and CE was back to the Emergency Exits.
Yep flew to Preveza on 19th July and CE was back to row 12.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 8:25 am
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They've sent these emails out on many occasions over the past few years ... In my experience there's limited or no correlation between the email and the flight being full .. and recent experience suggests this has not changed.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 8:36 am
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Originally Posted by bhbloke
Was talking to Cabin Crew on my very empty flight back from Ibiza on Monday evening.

They were telling me that Turkey and Greece flights are packed. Think he said he'd done a Bodrum run on the Friday or Saturday and CE was back to the Emergency Exits.
Packed because they keep cancelling flights with light loads T-72! Was expecting a pretty empty BA640 LHR to ATH on Tuesday, however they cancelled the earlier departure (which was a A321) and merged both flights onto a A320 Neo! CE was 100% full back to row 12 which meant all ET seats were the far less comfortable ones.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 9:45 am
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We had this message for our flight to Rome last week - the flight was about 60% full. Most passengers had a free middle seat.
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Old Aug 13, 2020, 9:50 am
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Originally Posted by Cap'n Benj
or the other 5 due out that day have been cancelled!

correct, get the same message to and from copenhagen this week. Was quite full coming to London, but they have cut the service to one a day.
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