Originally Posted by
C17PSGR
Yes, if you're willing to take the chance. I have noticed on B6 that when I buy the Y+ seat, I end up sitting next to people who showed up at the airport at the last minute without a seat assignment and ended up there for free.
I'm still thinking with just 36 Y seats, unless fares on AA are far above its competitors, 36 Y seats will be filled up very quickly. Generally its the leisure traveler that is booking six months out. So the miser gets "Unassigned" when booking. Then the miser gets to the airport and still no Y seats so its Y+ for him/her. To that end, would AA try to op up any GLDs from Y to Y+ to make a seat available in Y.
It sounds like AA really wants to hand off the low yield stuff to other carriers. Remember in the 2006 documenatry when the JFK/LAX flight was examined and it only made a net profit of $200 (of course that was one sole flight six years ago).