Oman Air

[ethanegcc]

Very slowly making it to public booking platforms:

What website is this? Still can't find it on the Oman Air website.

 

[Scottie Dog]

When I worked in travel most GDS would only show a maximum of 7 seats - although some would show 9. If 7 is the max then that might also explain the display.

 

[Dobbo]

I had a feeling it would be a sales technique - had no idea the price baskets would be so small!

Thanks for the info all.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Dobbo

I'm not sure if you were replying to my previous post.

When I made reference to a GDS showing a maximum of 7 seats I was not implying that 7 was the limit of seats in the particular 'basket'. If I was looking to see how many seats might actually be available I need to hold 7 seats and then check availability again. this might need to be repeated a few times until the number came down to less than 7. I would then know the exact number of seats at a specific fare level.

In summary if I held 3 x 7 seats and then found on the fourth availability check that there were only 2 seats left then there were in fact 23 seats in that allocation.

Does that help?

 

[David_itl]

Handy little insight on Virgin's fare code display
http://v-flyer.com/toolbox_fare_codes.php

• The numbers are not cumulative. Each discounted bucket is a subset of the bucket above it, so if you see 'Y8 B6', that does not necessarily mean there are 14 seats available in Y & B buckets. There are 8 in Y, of which 6 can be sold as B.
• The numbers are not necessarily all the seats available. The highest number you will see is 9, which means when you see 'Y9', there are 9, or more, seats available in full-fare economy. Also, the Revenue Management team at Virgin Atlantic can and do shuffle around availability all the time. So you may see 'X0', then an hour later, it's 'X9'. It's Revenue Management's job to monitor sales and adjust the availability of buckets accordingly to maximise the sales on a flight.
• The numbers are the number of tickets available for sale, not necessarily the number of physical seats left on the aircraft. Most airlines oversell flights based on known historical data about no-shows and re-bookings. It's also possible that the number of seats on sale is less than the actual number of seats on the aircraft to take into account any config changes - this is why it's common to see more reward seats and discounted fares appear a week or so before a flight, since the schedulers can be more sure about where their aircraft are going to be.

 

[Dobbo]

Thanks both - very useful!

 

[ethanegcc]

For goodness sake, what websites is Oman Air bookable on?

It would be greatly appreciated as people have mentioned it is bookable on third party sites - but which ones?

 

[David_itl]

I imagine travel agents if it's loaded in GDS systems.

Don't know if you can book directly, but this is on Amadeus

https://www.amadeus.net/search/flig...DT=1&cabin[]=economy&from=/home/forms/flights

 

[ethanegcc]

I imagine travel agents if it's loaded in GDS systems.

Don't know if you can book directly, but this is on Amadeus

https://www.amadeus.net/search/flights?origin[]=MAN:Manchester Airport, United Kingdom&destination[]=MCT:Muscat - Maţār as Sīb ad Duwalī&departureDate[]=170501&returnDate[]=170511&activity[]=10d&passenger[]=ADT=1&cabin[]=economy&from=/home/forms/flights

Thank you. You can't yet book on their website.

 

[ethanegcc]

Rejoice...Kind of!
Manchester has been added to the Oman Air drop down list, but when trying to book Manchester - Muscat flights it still comes up with an error!

 

[ethanegcc]

View attachment 4195

 

[ethanegcc]

Flights from MAN-MCT are now bookable on the Oman Air website - MAG time for some advertising!

 

[ethanegcc]

Please tell me that 'Manchester T3' is a joke? Terminal 3?View attachment 4196

 

[User001]

It's going from T2, that will be an error above.

 

[ethanegcc]

I thought so but I hope it is an error. Terminal 3 doesn't need anyone else using it!

 

[User001]

T3 at that time of night actually isn't that bad, but, the Oman Air flights will definately be T2.

When Cathay re-started MAN, that too stated T3, but that was because of the codeshare on BA.

 

[ethanegcc]

Now bookable on google flights:
View attachment 4197

 

[User001]

It's been bookable on Google flights for at least a week.

 

[ethanegcc]

Well now, atleast everyone on the forum is informed.

It's been bookable on Google flights for at least a week.

 

[User001]

Manchester features very prominently on the Oman Air homepage now: