Hi,
I just thought I'd share my recent experiences of booking my FC miles flights to/from Orlando. We had 3 EC-PE upgrade vouchers in our account and one was expiring soon and as I'm a big kid at heart I wanted to go and visit the new Harry Potter world in Orlando. We decided May would be a good time and thus my hunt for PE availability started.
Outbound: Getting the outbound was really easy as we were very flexible on dates, when I looked at 331 days in advance there were 3 days we could choose from that still have PE availability. Called up FC and bagged 2xPE seats using my upgrade voucher.
Return: So the return was a little more tricky, the other half wanted to return on the Friday as this leads to a Saturday landing and some time to readjust before work on Monday. Did a dummy run on the Thursday flights and by the time I got to my desk at work they were loaded and I could book them, this gave me hope for the Friday flights. Did the same thing Friday and I saw they had been released but the time I had called the FC they were gone :( So Saturday return it was (hopefully). Worried that I'd miss these I was determined to be up early and call before I left the house. I was still awake just after midnight and had a quick check and there they were all loaded for both flights. Called the FC but was sadly informed that although they are available online they can't access them for a couple of hours, as I needed to book using the upgrade voucher I was resigned to wait until morning. Called up at 6.10am and managed to bag 2xPE seats on the later orlando flight (I had the option of both but thought I'd have more chance of sleeping if the flight was later). By the time I got to work all the seats that were loaded had gone (thankfully some by me).
Since the new system it does appear that some seats are loaded automatically at midnight at 331 (or so my searches suggest).
Now to decide what seats to pick, currently in row 24 in the bubble both ways, I'm guessing the general consensus is that these are the best?
Sorry for the long email but thought I'd share my experience for those who are interested.
Thanks for reading!
I just thought I'd share my recent experiences of booking my FC miles flights to/from Orlando. We had 3 EC-PE upgrade vouchers in our account and one was expiring soon and as I'm a big kid at heart I wanted to go and visit the new Harry Potter world in Orlando. We decided May would be a good time and thus my hunt for PE availability started.
Outbound: Getting the outbound was really easy as we were very flexible on dates, when I looked at 331 days in advance there were 3 days we could choose from that still have PE availability. Called up FC and bagged 2xPE seats using my upgrade voucher.
Return: So the return was a little more tricky, the other half wanted to return on the Friday as this leads to a Saturday landing and some time to readjust before work on Monday. Did a dummy run on the Thursday flights and by the time I got to my desk at work they were loaded and I could book them, this gave me hope for the Friday flights. Did the same thing Friday and I saw they had been released but the time I had called the FC they were gone :( So Saturday return it was (hopefully). Worried that I'd miss these I was determined to be up early and call before I left the house. I was still awake just after midnight and had a quick check and there they were all loaded for both flights. Called the FC but was sadly informed that although they are available online they can't access them for a couple of hours, as I needed to book using the upgrade voucher I was resigned to wait until morning. Called up at 6.10am and managed to bag 2xPE seats on the later orlando flight (I had the option of both but thought I'd have more chance of sleeping if the flight was later). By the time I got to work all the seats that were loaded had gone (thankfully some by me).
Since the new system it does appear that some seats are loaded automatically at midnight at 331 (or so my searches suggest).
Now to decide what seats to pick, currently in row 24 in the bubble both ways, I'm guessing the general consensus is that these are the best?
Sorry for the long email but thought I'd share my experience for those who are interested.
Thanks for reading!