Did some searching but found nothing, and I asked in the sticky above, but wanted to elaborate a bit. I am looking at flights from JFK-LAX in September, but when I go to select seats, the only seats available are "Main Cabin Extra" seats, or a few middle seats in the back. Am I not able to get 2 seats together without paying this premium($60-80 a seat each way...)? Is this new, because I booked a flight back in March and did not have this issue with AA? I checked random flights throughout the year, and this seems to be happening with them all.
Also, ExpertFlyer shows these "unavailable" seats as available... For example with AA flight 181 on 9/09/2015, here is AA.com vs ExpertFlyer
Does this mean those seats are really there, but AA is blocking them? Anyway to get around this, like booking, but not choosing seats?