Originally Posted by
GBadger
I second your suggestion about unsold/unassigned seats, but I get the feeling NW may want to purposely leave a little ambiguity there. We'll call it wiggle room for extraordinary circumstances.
Possibly, but it's widely available via other sources (any of several availability tools, nwa.com itself by trying to book a ticket and looking at the seat map). It seems like a silly inconvenience to have it left off this display. Knowing that you're 3rd on the standby list tells you only so much. Compare that to knowing that you're 3rd and F is fully booked and knowing that you're 3rd and F still has 5 seats available.
CO's version of this shows all relevant information (number of seats in F, number booked, number checked in, and the standby list).