Originally Posted by
roses777
By the way, I have the seat on hold but since the departure is only a couple of days from now or so I'm nervous. I want to know that they will honor the hold until the hold expiration time. I also am looking at other flights and I wanted to know how to figure out how many seats are left on the other flights.
The number that they are displaying is the number of seats available in that fare bucket. So the airline might still be willing to sell 50 seats, but only 5 more at that fare level. The web sites get that info from the airline's reservation system.