Originally Posted by
Alpha
I don't see how this would reflect an oversold situation. If the maps were full and there were a couple seats available, then I could understand. But at least 7 seats available?
The seat map is not an accurate indicator of how many seats have been sold nor how many seats are still available to be sold. It only accurately reflects the seats available for assignment. Right now, you can't select a seat assignment on that flight, but you can buy at least seven seats (in L inventory or higher).
Again, the seat maps don't tell us anything about the booked loads for the flight. Expert Flyer and aa.com do tell us that AA is still willing to sell plenty of seats, both in coach and in first.
When AA overbooks, it doesn't just overbook by one or two, on some flights, it might overbook by several. Perhaps even by 10 or more.