Originally Posted by ty97

Thanks for sharing.

pmAA definitely did start holding back seats (sometimes an absurd amount of seats) until much later (sometimes even the gate). This is actually a pretty recent phenomenon over the past year or two in my experience (I don't recall the exact timing and don't know if it was old management or new management that implemented it. Just sharing that this very-late-clearing is a relatively new thing for pmAA fliers as well)