<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DemoZeppos:
As a restatement of what I said earlier, I was looking for Economy seating for planahead, and the entire Economy cabin is empty; we're talking about 7 seats occupied out of 114 in coach, travel for Tue. b/f Thanksgiving. I know market/supply and demand, but American simply decided it wasn't going to release any seats for Planahead travel, and in effect, created a black out date that is unpublished.
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Mistake #1, IMHO, is trusting the seatmaps as the exact number of seats sold to date.
#2- even if there are 7 seats taken, maybe all 7 went to PlanAAhead awards.
Once again, IMHO, planning for Thanksgiving award travel two months before the holiday isn't really planningAAhead. Best of luck, anyway, and welcome to FT.