Originally Posted by YOWgary

The reason I ask is that I'm seeing an ongoing but inconsistent issue where the search engine will show an ANA-metal flight as "waitlisted", but then a phone agent will list the flight as being immediately confirmable.

I've seen one booking already confirmed for SFO-NRT in this way, and a second booking showed this possible on Monday, but by the time I'd moved MR over to make the booking, it was back to "waitlist only".

No apparent rhyme or reason to which ones are confirmable or not.