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Non-revving To IST On Turkish Or DL

Jeffinbwi From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 152 posts, RR: 0
Posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 2797 times:

I am trying to non-rev to IST from JFK in around late October. Are the flights full? Any insight from DL or TK employees would be helpful. I've tried LH before and barely made it back, although their employees were very nice. Thanks!

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N503JB From Hong Kong, joined May 2000, 300 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2678 times:

Jeffinbwi
most of the flight out from IST by JFK are fully booked, can you advice the date of your departure by e-mail to me boeing777@netvigator.com

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N503JB

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Fly-K From Germany, joined May 2000, 3120 posts, RR: 53
Reply 2, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2670 times:

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Can't speak specifically for JFK-IST, but generally I found non-reving to IST more difficult than on other routes, forecasts are less predictable due to changing no-show patterns and sometimes higher overbooking. However I noticed that TK tends to overbook less than let's say LH.

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Jeffinbwi From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 152 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 2548 times:

Thanks for the advice!

Jetdeltamsy From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 2984 posts, RR: 8
Reply 4, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2506 times:

Quoting Jeffinbwi (Thread starter):
I am trying to non-rev to IST from JFK in around late October. Are the flights full?

Istanbul is one of my favorite cities in the world. Getting there on Delta is always a major challenge. Our flight are nearly always 100% full every day.

I have better luck on Air France.

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Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22070 posts, RR: 51
Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2509 times:

Quoting Jetdeltamsy (Reply 4):
Our flight are nearly always 100% full every day.

A little bit of a strong statement. While DL does experience periods of flights being repeatedly oversold, things overall are not that bad...

For instance here were the DL loads factors on the route for 2004.
Jan - 74
Feb - 60
Mar - 73
Apr - 66
May - 75
Jun - 88
Jul - 87
Aug - 87
Sep - 86
Oct - 81
Nov - 67
Dec - 70

Quoting Jeffinbwi (Thread starter):
I am trying to non-rev to IST from JFK in around late October. Are the flights full?

In regard to DL IST-JFK flights for the end of October it does not help that the flights dont operate on the 25/27/29, but the 31st looks the best loadwise followed by the 30th. The remaining days are at or near capacity.

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