Originally Posted by
Crisphoarder
My flight was noted as having no free seats and considered myself lucky that I got a MCE seat. But once on board in MCE, for at least the first three rows all the middle seats were empty. Does anyone know if this is because of BE fares?
Likely there were no paxs willing to pay for a middle seat even in front of coach and/or all BE fares were seated in middle seats outside of MCE. AA will only assign a MCE seat (usually a middle seat) to BE fares if only MCE seats remain.