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In WP/P1 land, April-June next year is not considered "a long way off" anymore.
Sorry, I was probably a bit short form in my response. When I made my requests, I was very specific in flight numbers, ports and dates. e.g. I requested QF94 LAX-MEL on Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 January, QF12 LAX-SYD, Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 January etc. Another thing I did was check availability on expertflyer for 'I' fare class availability to make sure I was only requesting for flights where there was availability. I also made my request back in May, so approximately 8 months in advance.
I was told on Monday after my request for J and PE were turned down that I could try again in a couple of months. I elected to keep the Y reward seat, that can, as was suggested to me, be cancelled. I'll keep an eye out for a J or PE seat between now and departure next August and might ring again if they announce a J sale that includes JNB. I don't have an alternate route for SYD-JNB.
This is what Fiji say. All of it is false (though, remember they have been trained this way so they are instructed to only do one request at a time).
The manual review is the biggest thing I will miss since being kicked out of the club and may be a motivation to get back in. As I am in ADL I take it for granted that the dom J seats will just get released when connecting to/from
In your experience, what percentage of requests initially rejected by the "bot" get approved via manual review?
Not to answer for Matt, but as a P1 too (yeah Matt, you're still in the club as far as I'm concerned
) I'd say my strike rate has been very very high. Around 80-90% (I've not kept track). Caveat to this, that unlike someone like Matt who usually is after 2 or 3 seats, I fly solo, and it's MUCH easier to get one seat released (for obvious reasons) - so my anecdotal experience is probably very skewed due to that simple fact. I've gotten F released on SYD-LAX multiple times (and MEL-LAX when it had F), J on MEL-DFW. You can get an idea of where I go a bit I guess (ie: never tried the much harder LHR foe example). I'd also surmise that probably half would initially have been rejected but come through via manual review. For example, my most recent requests to get to DFW had an initial request MEL-DFW for my date rejected initially, MEL-SYD-LAX(F the next day) instant approval - which I grabbed, and I also put in for MEL-SYD-DFW on my preferred date (well really the request was for SYD-DFW, the team can usually add a dom connection pretty easily). So at that initial request stage I at least had a way to get to the US - not on my preferred date, but I had a seat (and internal US could be sorted separately). The othrs went for manual review, and MEL-DFW was approved about five hours later and so the SYD-DFW wasn't needed and removed, and of course I gave back the SYD-LAX F seat. From my point of view from initial call I had *something* near my preference initially which I consider pretty good, and was happily surprised to then get my actual preference mere hours later. Again, only requesting single premium seats really helped.
I have not kept an eye on what percentage is bot approved vs manual review but when requesting multiple seats, I think most of them were manually reviewed. Below are flights I have requested this year and have been approved:
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