I am a true novice here. Can someone please tell me how to check the load on a particular flight? I have searched around the UAL site and cannot find what someone referred to as 'expert mode'.

My second question is, does anyone ever get bumped from a 747? I am on a flight from LHR to IAD later in the month and it does not show up at all when I try to book it, so I was wondering what the possibilities were.

Thanks

Hi marcus613, good to see you on the forum again ^

Let's see if we can help you out a bit. From the united.com homepage, go to "Planning Travel," select "Update Profile," and then log in. Click on "All Preferences," and in the new page scroll down a bit until you get to "Display Preferences." Under "Availability Format" change your setting to "expert," save your changes and you are done.

To find your flight, try to do a dummy booking. If your flight does not show up initially, try in a different class of service until it does. If it does not, it probably means that it is oversold oversold at the moment...

If your flight does not show up, there's a couple more ways you can check if it's zeroed out. One would be using the ITN.NET booking engine, and the other is using the Availability Tool (downloadable app, windoze only, with intermittent access to the CRS). Links for both of these tools can be found in the sticky thread at top of the Mileage Run Forum.

And yes, bumps to happen on 744s

Hope this is helpful.