United Loads out of Melbourne?

[Ben W]

Flying Melb-LAX on United on Saturday and wondering if anyone knows how full the flights have been on the direct flight? And if anyone has the info, how full the flight is showing for Saturday?

Cheers,

Ben

[Andrew M]

Looks very full if you go off the Select Seats map provided at www.ual.com when making the booking.

However www.seatcounter.com shows loads to be lowish.

Again not sure how accurate seatcounter.com actually is....

Can anyone actually confirm ?

[Daniel F]

Originally Posted by Andrew M

Looks very full if you go off the Select Seats map provided at www.ual.com when making the booking.

However www.seatcounter.com shows loads to be lowish.

Again not sure how accurate seatcounter.com actually is....

Can anyone actually confirm ?

Actually, seatcounter.com suggests that the flight is quite full as well. If the flight was empty, Seat Counter would show 9's across the economy booking classes.

First and Business class is looking quite empty though.

[Andrew M]

Originally Posted by Daniel F

Actually, seatcounter.com suggests that the flight is quite full as well. If the flight was empty, Seat Counter would show 9's across the economy booking classes.

First and Business class is looking quite empty though.

Well aware of that!

There are currently 58 seats in Economy free, so that's about an 80% load factor.

Not really that good, and as the front is very full, not good at all for these flights.

Full of bargain basement fares I would think

Wonder how much cargo she is carrying

[Daniel F]

Originally Posted by Andrew M

Well aware of that!

There are currently 58 seats in Economy free, so that's about an 80% load factor.

Not really that good, and as the front is very full, not good at all for these flights.

Full of bargain basement fares I would think

Wonder how much cargo she is carrying

You can't just add up all the booking classes to get the number of Economy seats available... that's not how it works. The cheaper booking classes are subsets of the more expensive booking classes. Looking at the availability, I would guess that the flight is actually full and the remaining seats will be overbooked seats.

[Mike Scott]

Here are the current numbers

MEL - LAX Saturday, January 3, 2009
First
CAP-BKD-NRSA
14-04-04
Business
CAP-BKD-NRSA
73-22-00
Economy
CAP-BKD-NRSA
260-334-01

826 MEL-LAX 14:00 9:10 744 N/R

First and Business look pretty empty, back is oversold by 74.

MS

[Andrew M]

Thanks Mike

Shows seatcounter is not that accurate either then, but good for a guide

[D Chan]

Originally Posted by Mike Scott

First and Business look pretty empty, back is oversold by 74.

MS

With the back of the plane oversold by so much, they are likely to offer one class one way upgrades for around 900 dollars AUD. Good deal if you've got cheap economy tickets and want to do transpac in business!!!

[Chris W]

Would it be the new J class though, because then the $900 might not be worth it.

[Andrew M]

Not the new J class!