Outlined below is the process to 'CAP' a flight or decrease the number of seats available for sale on any given flight.

Step-by-step guide

This procedure can be done on a flight-by-flight basis, or can be done in the allocations template and rolled over to many flights and date ranges.

Listed below are the 'flight-by-flight' steps:

This will bring you to the Seat Allocations pop up.
Enter your start date A, your end date B, and select the flight you'd like to change C.

Once everything is selected, click on the Look Up button.
The screen will populate with the series of flights you have selected (based on the date range).
Locate the flight for which you wish to change the allocations (the flight will highlight with a dark blue bar).
Click on the Edit button at the bottom of the screen. This will make the 3 right-hand quadrants active.
Working from the bottom up:
- Reduce the seats allocated in each booking class to the maximum number of seats you want to be allowed for sale.
- In the case below, should I want to only sell 40 seats on my flight, even though there are 75 economy seats, I would make the maximum number of seats available in each class of service no more than 40.

- Once you have have decreased the seats in the bottom quadrant, move on to the middle quadrant and reduce the seats to the maximum you wish to sell.

- When that is complete, go to the top quadrant and reduce the number of seats in the Curtail section.

By using the Curtail section, it still allows to have the actual number of seats available on your flight. All you are doing is holding back 'X' number seats for sale.
Should you wish to increase the number of available seats at a later point in time, decrease the number in Curtail and work from top to bottom to increase the number of allocated seats.

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