Qantas domestic seating data capture

[mikew]

Journey: MEL-BNE
Date of booking: JULY09
Date of travel: 21JUL09
Time of travel: 20:05
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 6A
Final seating: 4A
How changed: OLCI
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: E
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-23hours to 4D @ T-4h changed to 4A (seq #4).
Aircraft: 737-800

 

[medhead]

As a remote or regional mining town route this info will probably only prove that it doesn't fit the other data.

Journey: ADL-OLP
Date of booking: June 09
Date of travel: 20JUL09
Time of travel: 10:30
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 10C
Final seating: 5D
How changed: OLCI
Status of traveller: QC Bronze
Fare basis: not sure of exact class but discount economy, maybe O or S?
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI @ ~T-24hours (seq #1).
Aircraft: F50

Journey: OLP-ADL
Date of booking: June 09
Date of travel: 21JUL09
Time of travel: 17:00
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 11C
Final seating: 9D
How changed: OLCI
Status of traveller: QC Bronze
Fare basis: not sure of exact class but discount economy, maybe S? or O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI @ ~T-23 hours moved to 14D, then 10D five minutes later, then 9D at ~ T-20 hours (seq #3)
Aircraft: F50

 

[serfty]

Journey: MEL-BNE
Date of booking: 19JUN09
Date of travel: 22JUL09
Time of travel: 14:05
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 7D
Final seating: 4C
How changed: SSCI (Quick Check)
Status of traveller: WP
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI):

• OLCI at ~T-24hours (seq #5) 7D
• OLCI T-23H moved to 6D,
• OLCI T-7H moved to 5D,
• SSCI T-1¼H moved to 4C.

Aircraft: 73H

 

[serfty]

Journey: BNE-MEL
Date of booking: 19JUN09
Date of travel: 23JUL09
Time of travel: 12:55
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 7D
Final seating: 5D
How changed: SSCI (Quick Check)
Status of traveller: WP
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI):

• OLCI at ~T-20 hours (seq #26) 7D
• SSCI T-1¼H moved to 5D.

Aircraft: 73H

(Note - Lightly loaded, total of 24 PAX in rows 4-9 with B/E seats unoccupied.)

 

[JohnK]

Journey: BNE-SYD
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 31JUL09
Time of travel: 19:45
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 27F
Final seating: 24D
How changed: OLCI
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-22hours 30minutes (seq #24)
Aircraft: 767 Domestic Configuration

* Extremely lightly loaded flight

 

[JohnK]

Journey: SYD-BNE
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 02AUG09
Time of travel: 20:05
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 4C
Final seating: 4C
How changed: N/A
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-23hours (seq #14)
Aircraft: 737-800

* Lightly loaded flight

 

[skeeo]

Journey: CBR - MELB
Date of booking: 20 July 09
Date of travel: 6 Aug 09
Time of travel: 18:35
Class of travel: Fully Flex Economy
Initial allocation: 17C (unbelievable)
Final seating:
How changed:
Status of traveller: Gold
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-24hours

 

[jas]

Forgot to log these ages ago...

Journey: PER-ADL
Date of booking: 03APR09
Date of travel: 15JUL09
Time of travel: 13:25
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 18F
Final seating: 18F
How changed: N/A - no better seats available at bagdrop
Status of traveller: Bronze
Fare basis: E
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI
Aircraft: 737-400

Journey: ADL-MEL
Date of booking: 03APR09
Date of travel: 15JUL09
Time of travel: 19:40
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 26F
Final seating: 26F
How changed: N/A - no better seats available at bagdrop in PER
Status of traveller: Bronze
Fare basis: Q
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI
Aircraft: 737-400

 

[JohnK]

Journey: BNE-SYD
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 07AUG09
Time of travel: 19:45
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 24D
Final seating: 5E :shock:
How changed: *beep* at the gate
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-24hours (seq #1)
Aircraft: 767-300 Domestic configuration

* Full flight due to 18:15 BNE-SYD finally cancelled as aircraft was unserviceable

 

[anat0l]

Journey: BNE-SYD
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 07AUG09
Time of travel: 19:45
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 24D
Final seating: 5E :shock:
How changed: *beep* at the gate
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-24hours (seq #1)
Aircraft: 767-300 Domestic configuration

* Full flight due to 18:15 BNE-SYD finally cancelled as aircraft was unserviceable

w00t. There's a real change of pace.

 

[JohnK]

w00t. There's a real change of pace.

Yes totally unexpected.

First op-up of the year and from memory the first time my boarding pass has been rejected at the gate....

 

[JohnK]

Journey: SYD-BNE
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 09AUG09
Time of travel: 21:05
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 23J
Final seating: 23F
How changed: OLCI at ~T-24hours
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-24hours (seq #4)
Aircraft: 767-336 ex-BA configuration

 

[notzac]

Figured I should contribute..

Journey: MEL-BNE
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 06AUG09
Time of travel: 20:05
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 11C (I think?)
Final seating: 4D
How changed: OLCI at ~T-8hours
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-22hours
Aircraft: 73H

Journey: BNE-MEL
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 09AUG09
Time of travel: 19:55
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 6C (I think?)
Final seating: 4C
How changed: OLCI at ~T-6hours
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-18hours
Aircraft: 73H

Also interesting was how both flights left and arrived on time (a rare thing for me!)

 

[medhead]

Yes totally unexpected.

Sorry for a hijack but on the topic of JohnK's predictable weekly flights. I'm considering some jobs in CBR (14% pay increase) or SYD (95% pay increase) but living in ADL.

JohnK based on your experiences would you recommend a weekly commute?

 

[serfty]

... JohnK based on your experiences would you recommend a weekly commute?

R U Single? (or want to be?)

Seriously, I have done this for 6 weeks and 8 weeks and it can get bldly lonely at times. However, in the short term it was ok. (Judicious spouse related extravagance funded by cash Travel Allowance assisted.)

 

[JohnK]

JohnK based on your experiences would you recommend a weekly commute?

It depends what is important in your life.

If it is family and friends then I would not recommend a weekly commute.

If it is money (95% salary increase sounds great) and you don't mind being alone most of the time the weekly commute (although it gets boring and tiring) is bearable.

As I did not have a job at the time the decision was relatively easy for me. Still I get extremely tired and try to cram too much in the extremely short weekend. Also the sleeping patterns change (in BNE sun is up before 5:00am in summer and it gets dark early all year round) even with the short commute. But better commuting with flights on weekends than driving >1 hour each way to work every day....

 

[tuapekastar]

I have a weekly commute, though it's (2 hours) by car rather than plane, and I can attest to the fact that your real life almost goes 'on hold'. The weekends are very short, and there is no 'continuity' - by that I mean if you commence a task or venture on the weekend, you usually cannot pick it up again till the following weekend - often not an efficient way of doing things.

There is a limit to how long you can do this - haven't reached mine yet.

PS. Am single, so no family considerations.

 

[medhead]

Thanks everyone. Basically confirms what I thought. umm....

 

[JohnK]

Journey: BNE-SYD
Date of booking: 09JUN09
Date of travel: 14AUG09
Time of travel: 18:45
Class of travel: Discount Economy
Initial allocation: 28F
Final seating: 24J (vacant 24K)
How changed: OLCI at ~T-21hours
Status of traveller: Platinum
Fare basis: O
Check in? (OLCI, QP/J Lounge, Regular, SSCI): OLCI at ~T-21hours (seq #17)
Aircraft: 767-300 domestic configuration

 

[Grooba]

Yes totally unexpected.

First op-up of the year and from memory the first time my boarding pass has been rejected at the gate....

Nice to see a change of luck there JohnK!