I booked a DFW-LHR-WAW R/T about 3-4mo ago. At booking, there were no PE seats for sale. I found that odd. I set a W/P fare alert in Expert Flyer and never once got a notification, though there were many open seats on both AA78 outbound and AA79 return (10 Oct and 14 Oct). Thankfully, my SWU cleared to J about 2 months ago on DFW-LHR.

I'm waitlisted for AA79 on Sunday (14 Oct), and it seems like the loads on this flight all weekend are really high. This is unusual for me to see (as I fly this flight a lot), especially in the fall season. W and P are pretty much 0 starting Friday, the 12th all the way through Weds, 17th for all 3 direct LHR-DFW flights.

On AA79, it's J0 Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon and Tues. Similar numbers for AA81 as well.

I find this odd. The seat map for my AA79 flight on Sunday shows 19 open J seats, but J0... so strange. Are there really 19 pax who haven't selected seats?

I guess AA is really killing it on this route in paid J and PE? Used to be a pretty easy SWU upgrade in the non-summer months.

Glad to see a fourth daily rotation coming on in a couple weeks.