Originally Posted by
Djokison
But the point of MCE isn't to fill it with non paying elites. It's to extract more revenue from their customers. I assume most of those non elites payed the $24+ to sit in an MCE seat. If AA lets Golds sit there for free, they'll be forgoing revenue.
No, most of the ones I've seen are getting them for free because MCE are the only seats available when they check in since there's not enough Elites/paying passengers to fill it up.
You can tell by the BP, if they paid for it, they'd be Group 1, not 3 or 4 as I very often see.