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Old Nov 12, 2004 | 3:07 am
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Most likely 4 available seats. There are 4 available "P" fares, but they will sell you a F or A fare as well. Someone else can probably explain it better, but basically, if there is X number of a discount fare code, there will be at least that number in full fare seats, and any fare code in between.

Edit: to add that Globaliser is correct, in that the correlation between fare bucket availability and actual number of empty seats is often weak.
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