Thread: How to tell availability?

Thanks again Randy!
You've been a great help.
Good thing I listed for Flight 276.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Patch:
Does flyzed.com ever give anything besides a straight face or a frowning face? Such as a smiley face? Curious to when and the percentage booked does it switch between faces? Like is 90% full a frown? Or is it 80%, 70%, or what? Thanks for any enlightenment. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well Patch,

Last year I flew on an LH 744 that had about 160 seats available and it still only showed a straight face...

Best way ever to get straight numbers on flights: Get contacts with access within lots of airlines!

Sometimes you can tell availability if you go to the airline's website like NW, DL, CO,UA and AA and pulling up the seat map/availablity. To do this just pull up your city pairs as if you were making a reservation. Then select your preferred flights, then look at seat map/availabity. If there are still lots of seats available it would give some indication that the flight is wide open. The best time to use this approach to make a judgement is within a few days before departure. Keep in mind that sometimes airlines may block certain rows of seats. Also, if you get message that implies "sorry unable to unassign seat at this time" usually implies close to capacity or potentially oversold. Keep in mind not airlines allows you to see their seat availabity before a purchase of a ticket.

You can also try on amadeus.net look for your destinations and tell if there are avalable plces, not the real number. But you find also the different carriers at the same time

can someone tell me a little more about
<a href="http://www.flyaow.com/classcwt.htm" target="_blank">http://www.flyaow.com/classcwt.htm</A>
It provides links to a number of sites, only one of which looks to be directly relevant to checking availability, and that is SeatCounter.com. That site gives the number available i each "bucket" but doesn't say what the buckets mean. Can someone help me. I'm seeing this list of classes and numbers:

Eva 255 A332 TPE/10:00a DPS/03:10p
B C D H J K L M N Q R T U V W X Y
7 7 0 7 0 0 7

China 687 A330 TPE/08:15a DPS/01:30p
7 4 7 4 7 7 7 7 7 7 0 7 7
B C D H J K L M N Q R T U V W X Y

any idea what the letters (B,C,D..) mean, and whether 7 are good numbers? Thanks.

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