Is Checkmytrip fully accurate?

[whereishome]

So I fly out tomorrow, and have been keeping an idea on the loading for QF21. Seatcounter returns the following

B    C    D    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    Q    S    V    Y
9    6    4    4    5    9    9    9    9    9    9    9    9    9

But the seat map on check my trip seems to be abnormally full for economy being nowhere near sold (as CDIJ are all up the front of the plane on either full fare or reward tickets).

Any ideas? I'm wondering if checkmytrip shows seats as occupied that are blocked out operationally (like exit rows, etc) or something...

 

[aus_flyer]

For QF, CMT shows blocked seats, exit rows and disabled access seats as being "occupied" when in fact they may not be.

That can skew results a little.

As a side note... the Qantas online seat selection facility appears to do the same thing... all K seats in F on a 747 will show as unavailable, even if they're not occupied as they are "disabled access".

 

[whereishome]

Ahh, excellent. I thought it might be something like that.

 

[serfty]

Also note that several days before a QF flight, Qantas puts the seating into a 'pre-flight' mode and often will block most if not all seats. C/M/T shows such blocked seating as allocated; I believe that is what you are seeing.

If E/F returns a seat map and you make a comparison you can see this.

Interestingly enough, if at this stage a lot of seats are shown as 'available' it normally means the loads are extremely light. If only a few seats are shown as 'available' them normal loading may be inferred. If all seats are 'taken' then the cabin is close to being, if not already, oversold.

 

[whereishome]

Yeah, I think the flight is pretty lightly loaded. The seats that were full were blocked out in blocks - I assume based on the fare types (jam those ultra discount codeshares up the back!).

Anyways, my assigned seat for the flight is pretty forward so I'm not too worried. Would love to have no seat mate though.

 

[JohnK]

My experience has been that CheckMyTrip does not always show the correct pre-allocated seats.

The AA flights on my current QF WHY Oneworld award show incorrect seat allocations so what does that say about actual available seats?

 

[serfty]

For flights on AA booked through QF:

QF equals Amadeus may/may not equal Sabre equals AA