This is around the winter holidays, so I don't have my hopes up. I got 2 award tickets (through AAdvantage) in F from the US to BOM connecting in LHR.

There was only 1 seat in F available for LHR-BOM so I took it and did a "voluntary downgrade" (AA terminology) to J for the other. AA assures me that the award is shown as an F award. (It actually saves miles to do this because if I kept the TATL F and 9W J then it would price out as two awards, 62.5K+30K =92.5K miles; whereas an AA F award to India is 90K miles one way).

Questions:
1. Apparently it is routine for 9W to only have 1 F award open. How full are the F cabins and what is 9W's procedure and priority order for releasing the seats? (I imagine their own elite FFs get priority; if it helps I an AA PLT/OneWorld Emerald).

2. The one seat in F shows class R (and shows up on AA.com as "Economy" !) The AA agent assured me that it was booked in First. Is there a list of Jet Airways award classes anywhere? (The other reservation in Premiere shows "D").

Thanks in advance!!!