Originally Posted by
jjay
They actually seem to be selling 8 - C4 and J4. See this screenshot:
Is there something I'm missing? Flight status is showing there should be only 7 business seats available. UA is showing they have 4 tickets in each of the J and C (making for 8 available Business class tickets.)
Again, you
DO NOT ADD J and C to get the number of available seats. The number of front cabin seats United is selling at time of your screenshot is 4 because J=4 (whatever combination of J and C sold that totals 4). If they sell a C fare, J and C will both go to 3, even though one seat is sold. If they sell 4 J fares, C will go to 0 and there will be no seats. To make it simple, once J goes below 9, that J-number is the exact number of Polaris seats UA is making available. Think of C as subset of J (but with restrictions/requirements). If one in the subset (C) is sold, obviously the whole (J) will go down 1.