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Yes and No. It all comes down to implementation. Like with AA, if you are not elite and pay extra to avoid basic fares and are not booking months in advance, most if not all of the seats are already blocked from selection unless you pay even more to select an aisle or window. In this case, unless I were prepared to pay both for the seat fee and the higher fare, I would never book on AA--unless with all those extra costs AA still provides the best value for that flight. I would start looking around at either B6/WN/JetSuiteX who don't yet have saver fares or would look at DL/UA to see what their seat options are. The people that are keeping themselves captive to one carrier may want to overpay for the same product. Everybody else has even more incentive to check out the competition to see which carrier provides the best value on any given itinerary.