iflyforpie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:10 pm Observation and experience. There are sites that have what each codes mean.. ..some are lower fares, some are for points and upgrades etc. None of them show how many seats there are.. if they have 9 open seats and really want to fill them they could have all buckets open, but it’s not my experience.

Different airlines use different codes. I don’t often bother with WS because pre-COVID they never oversold their flights and had chronically poor loads so it was easy to snag seats, and post COVID they simply haven’t been reliable enough.

But in my estimation if you see only three or four buckets with 7 or 9 seats the flights or just the basic J (first class) or Y (coach) buckets, the flight is nearly full given the latency of the info in MyID. You’ll have a gate seat assignment and will likely get bumped.

But all buckets open (G is the one if the if not the lowest bucket in Air Canada) then they have the lowest fares set in an attempt to fill the plane up. Every time I’ve got on an Air Canada plane going international I’ve had a row to myself both ways post COVID.

fliter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 1:52 pm I use the benefits multiple times a month. We set up our whole lifestyle around travel benefits combined with the flexibility of airline scheduling. Our family has three different home bases - one in the Caribbean (lucked out and got an amazing deal on a beautiful house 5-minute walk from the ocean during COVID, when there were no tourists and people were desperate to sell), on the East Coast and one in Toronto. Since my upgrade, my wife no longer needs to work, so she spends winters in the Caribbean, summers on the Atlantic, and occasionally visits me in Toronto as well. I work for 1-2 weeks straight and then go and be with her for 1-2 weeks on my days off. No other job allows for this kind of lifestyle flexibility and low-cost/free travel. And that's before we factor in vacation, where I can be off for nearly a month at a time, doing things like flying to France business class
for $150 a pop...

Like RoAF-Mig21, I too grew up behind an iron curtain and have always dreamt of travelling the world. I complain about the state of Canadian aviation industry as much as the next pilot, and salivate with envy when I see U.S. salaries posted, but all in all I recognize how good I have it. I actually am living the dream.

Loon-A-Tic wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 2:14 pm I'd trade then away for a salary increase in a heartbeat, useless as tits on a bull as far as I'm concerned

ant_321 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:53 pm Where in the Caribbean did you find the good deal? I want to buy a property in the Caribbean once my covid debt is paid off

hithere wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 9:33 pm this entire thread is hilarious- for every person that says " passes are awesome!" , the next says " passes are sh!t!'. The original poster must be like so confused. I imagine those that say passes are great are mainline AC folks with their upgradable B1/ C1 passes and those that think they are sh!t are Jazz folks with their non upgradable C2/C4 passes. Make no wonder Jazz pilots use Transat(or basically any other carrier with whom they have a jumpseat agreement) where they are treated like gold and upgraded whenever possible.

garfield wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 11:02 am A lot. When random people ask me how often I travel they think i'm multi millionaire
Priceless.