Also, FWIW, the southbound flight was 5 cleared 2 days ago and went up to 7 today. The northbound flight had only 1 cleared 2 days ago and it was still that way (with 1 open seat up front) until this morning.

It is probably worth citing routes these days more than ever as that flight number has, over the past week, operated BOS-IAH, EWR-SXM and SXM-EWR and it will be BOS-IAH-CLE tomorrow. @:-)