<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by AS Flyer:
Yes, it seems as though our flights tend to be filling up closer to departure. It's odd, you can check a flight about two weeks prior to departure and see that there are 50 open seats. In two weeks time those 50 seats can fill up and the flight will end up being oversold. I always thought it was because of web specials but after reading comments here I guess that wouldn't necessarily be true.</font>
I agree 100%. I have noticed wide open flights (at least according to ITN which I no longer trust since it shows 7's all the way down the line) and then slowly but surely the flights will fill up and I am stunned (I suspect it may be from frequent flyer miles or something since I feel that others are into some backdoor way of getting miles from purchasing traveler's checks). So the flights I fly are always packed by the last day and in the end I am forced to use my meager earnings to purchase a weekly airfare while at the mercy of whatever AS decides to charge. Probably over 15% of my income goes just to AS flights.
And you wonder why I am so concerned about fares.