Anyone have any idea how good the seat maps are on B6 as an indicator of how sold the flight is? I don't think there are a lot of blocked seats, and there is no charge for seat assignments, so I would think it should be reasonably representative.

I'm looking to go to South Florida around Xmas/New Year's and the fares are obscene -- mostly $449 o/w and they're not even refundable! But the seat maps suggest that the flights are still rather lightly loaded (generally in the 40-60% full range), so I would think the fares would start to come down when they realize they can't extort that much cash from enough people and there isn't going to be a lot of last-minute holiday leisure travel. They have come down recently on some flights (to $359), but not the ones that work for me.

Thoughts?