Trying to plan a trip and have checked seat availability on USAirways. com and the employee travel web site. I have noticed a huge difference in the numbers of seats sold/seats available info listed between the two sites for every flight looked at. Which site is more reliable?
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Crzipilot
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None of them.......try checking res computer at the airport and you get a third number to try and plan something with. HA
Though I think the difference between .com and the Emp. site might be that people opt to not purchase the premium seats or whatever...so they are seatless till day of checkin? Not sure if that is true or not.
Though I think the difference between .com and the Emp. site might be that people opt to not purchase the premium seats or whatever...so they are seatless till day of checkin? Not sure if that is true or not.
BoeingBoy
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That's at least a large part of it - believe it or not many leisure passengers don't pick seats when they buy their ticket. In theory the employee travel site is accurate at the moment you check it since it gets the info from the res system. But because people are buying or changing tickets all the time if you checked a specific flight on a specific day three times in a row you could get three different numbers for available seats.
Jim
Actually, Jim, it's even more dynamic than that. I've seen seat numbers change before my very eyes. I don't think that the pop-up box with the names in it changes though.
theboss175
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Employee travel site is pretty accurate with QIK.
Some cities are worse than others too. PHL, CLT and especially LAS are far more likely than others to change from one minute to the next.
