Originally Posted by
legalalien
Somewhat off-topic, but I wonder how long AA and BA can sustain so much capacity to LHR - 3 daily flights, and another 3x weekly BA flight coming this May? Here's the seat map for AA 736 yesterday (1/30), about 30 min prior to departure - so pretty much everyone booked on that flight should have had seat assignments already.
The late AA flight to LHR wasn't much better, and today's flight load is also pretty light.
J is mostly full, with only a few seats unassigned (J2 R1 D1 I0 today).. Does J cabin actually pay for the entire flight?
A Tuesday departure in late January is about as off-peak as you can get for transatlantic flights. I wouldn't put any weight into spot checking a few seatmaps at this time of year, outside of a few moderately busy weekends around New Years and the Europe to FL/CA/Caribbean holiday traffic, January and February are complete dead zones for coach transatlantic travel. I'd be willing to bet a majority of AA's TATL flights were as equally lightly loaded yesterday, not just PHL-LHR.
I'm flying JFK-HEL tomorrow, at this time there's maybe 30 seats tops taken in the back of the AY A330.