Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4726 posts, RR: 51 Posted (6 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 829 times:
Hello everybody,
topic says it all, what are the best ways to specifically get a flight on an A320-100, other than booking AF or BA and pray? AF has 54 -200 and 13 -100, so relying on pure chance is not that good a strategy
- Are there any routes on which the -100 are used, as a rule of thumb?
- Are there any differences visible in CRS?
- Would it make sense to call the airline and say "look, I´m a freak, please tell me whether there are any A320-100 on SXB-CDG in the next 4 weeks?"
Sabena332 From Germany, joined May 2001, 14216 posts, RR: 100 Reply 1, posted (6 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 784 times:
Hi Daniel,
If I were you I would call or write AF and ask them for the best way to get a flight on the A 320-100 but even when a -100 is confirmed by AF, there is still a very high risk that they switch in the last second to an A 320-200 because it is almost the same plane.
Good that I do not have the same problem, I had an A 320-100 flight from DUS to CDG back in July 1999 .
TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4639 posts, RR: 54 Reply 2, posted (6 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 771 times:
Daniel,
I'm frequently travelling on AF between DUS and CDG, and have never found out a pattern behind the use of -100's and -200's. It is not shown in with a special a/c code in Galileo or Amadeus, but it may be different within AF's internal dispatch system.
However, I doubt that four weeks in advance the specific dispatch for a certain aircraft will be definite. With no cabin configuration differences between the -100 and -200, there will be a lot of last-minute equipment shuffles up until the day and hour your flight will operate.
...if you travel frequently enough - from my own experience at least three or four times a year - on AF flights marked as "operated by 320", you will get a fair chance to fly on a -100.
Homer: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
Ba319-131 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 6119 posts, RR: 53 Reply 3, posted (6 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 746 times:
Pot luck!
When I flew to HAM last week the flight out was a 320,I had hoped for one of BA's new -232 models,as i'd been on the -111 and -211 320's.The aircraft turned out to be a -111,but not the same one as i'd flown on before,so now i've managed 2 BA -111's!
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2884 posts, RR: 42 Reply 4, posted (6 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 714 times:
Oh come on, is it really necessary that we all tell Daniel that we already had our flight on an A320-100? The answer is: Yes! Okay, I've been on G-BUSF BA A320-111 LHR-STR in August 2000 Sorry.
Back to the topic. I don't think they plan in advance which flights get the A320-100. As already mentioned, cabin configuration is just the same. However I'm sure they plan in advance which flights will *not* get the A320-100 (e.g. longer flights to north Africa or mayb even middle East) where they might need the additional range of the A320-200. But I know this doesn't help much. So I agree with TraStar500: The best way is to book as many flights on AF (or better: BA) as possible
Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4726 posts, RR: 51 Reply 7, posted (6 years 7 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 596 times:
Oh well, such is the fate of a Miles&More junkie...
Not that the lack of 320-100 on my log is causing me nightmares, but still.
I consider doing SXB-CDG-SXB some time this summer (very good fares, as opposed to LH´s 700+ EUR), for a day trip on a Saturday, and I was wondering how my chances were.
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