Seat Map help

[v8Statesman]

Can anyone pull up a seat map for this flight?

Search:Departing PER on 12/04/08 for SIN
Flying QF flight 77 on booking class Y


I can do it for J, but not Y. I have been trying for days

 

[serfty]

Can anyone pull up a seat map for this flight?

Search:Departing PER on 12/04/08 for SIN
Flying QF flight 77 on booking class Y


I can do it for J, but not Y. I have been trying for days

No can do with E/F.

Looking at the loadings, it's quite full so this is to be expected. From experience you'll get the ersatz map in 8 days or so. (J6 C6 D5 Y9 B9 H9 K4 M0 R0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0)

 

[v8Statesman]

Anyone know why the Y map would not be available but the J map is?

 

[Travel Guru]

Once a certain number of seats have been sold, the seat map is often not available as seat selections are no longer taken.

For J however, seat assignments are always available.

TG

 

[NM]

Anyone know why the Y map would not be available but the J map is?

This is common when the Y cabin has reached its pre-allocation limit. After that point they will not pre-allocate any more seats except for high-status FF members (not sure if it includes Silver, but def Gold and Platinum are allowed to allocate).

 

[serfty]

This is common when the Y cabin has reached its pre-allocation limit. After that point they will not pre-allocate any more seats except for high-status FF members (not sure if it includes Silver, but def Gold and Platinum are allowed to allocate).

PS and QP can generally preallocate past the limit.

When the cabin starts to get full, Qantas hide the seat map vor a few reasons; I have been told one of them is Qantas do not want competitors to easily find out how few seats are free.

 

[simongr]

I assume that would be so that the competitors don't jack up prices knowing that pax wont be able to fly QF. A $10 subscription to EF should give them all they need - or a small bribe to a travel agent...

 

[Travel Guru]

PS and QP can generally preallocate past the limit.

When the cabin starts to get full, Qantas hide the seat map vor a few reasons; I have been told one of them is Qantas do not want competitors to easily find out how few seats are free.

I wouldn't think that's the reason, I mean every airline runs some sort of GDS software, all they'd have to do is take a look for themselves, and from experience looking at a seat map's a fairly inaccurate measurement of a availability of a flight...i'm sure you've all experienced it on QF Dom online checkin where almost no decent seat options come up despite there being plenty of unsold seats on the flight.

I think a more plausable reason would have to do with the ability to retain some control over seating and being able to accommodate couples, families, groups together who haven't prebooked seats without causing too much angst with other passengers who want their preallocated seat.

TG