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Is AC on this system?
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Yes.

As well as an employee travel site.
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Is it true that it is only for business travel?
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Absolutely not. Works good.
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The booking is much easier now. No need to wait for long periods of time on hold or have to deal with trained agents who have no clue how to book a zed ticket.

But...I chose my routing based on green smiley faces for load factors. Discovered on check-in less than 24 hours later that both flights were oversold. Still made it on both flights due to no-shows(so it worked) but....it would be interesting to know how a smiley face is determined.
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If you have FB, join some of the loadshare groups. I always get the actual loads when I can and stick to airlines that have people who are members of the group and can get said loads.
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Also if you look up how to decipher some of the jargon on the site, like J0Y3O9 etc that helps too.
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pelmet wrote: Fri Aug 24, 2018 8:11 pm The booking is much easier now. No need to wait for long periods of time on hold or have to deal with trained agents who have no clue how to book a zed ticket.

But...I chose my routing based on green smiley faces for load factors. Discovered on check-in less than 24 hours later that both flights were oversold. Still made it on both flights due to no-shows(so it worked) but....it would be interesting to know how a smiley face is determined.
Green = more than 8 seats available I believe
Yellow = between 0 and 9 seats available
Red = no seats available

That seems to be my experience with it. Not sure if it is always like this.
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digits_ wrote: Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:04 am
Green = more than 8 seats available I believe
Yellow = between 0 and 9 seats available
Red = no seats available

That seems to be my experience with it. Not sure if it is always like this.
I believe this is correct. The problem is that it only shows total chairs available. Some airlines won't allow non-rev to sit in business class etc.
Lightchop wrote: Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:15 pm Also if you look up how to decipher some of the jargon on the site, like J0Y3O9 etc that helps too.
This is the best way (short of the StaffTraveller app or Facebook non-rev group). If you spend a couple of minutes you can figure out how many of each fare are available. Just remember that it will show several fare codes for economy seats. I used to have a breakdown of what each meant but when I left my old airline, I don't think I remembered to save it.
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