Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
EF is definitely real time, however anytime you are checking seatmaps like this right at T-24 hours things will be very dynamic as folks start to check-in and get seats assigned to them, etc., as well as some seats held for airport control will open up.
In any event the flight is J0Y0 so for a leisure flight like CLT-AUA it's almost certainly oversold to some extent.
Yes, probably oversold. I should've checked EP last evening, instead of just thinking it looked like a lot of seats were still available. But not sure if what EF showed would have been helpful at that point or not. Unless Coach classes showed 0, that might have been a flag, or at least a question.
At 1130pm last night, AA was still selling 15K and 25K award tickets for economy and first class respectively. Surely, they must have known at that point that they had an oversold flight. (It seems incredulous that AA would be offering Award seats at old saver levels for an oversold flight??)
Oh well. This was my first foray into chancing an upgrade. I wanted to check out the new Award upgrade policy. BUF-CLT cleared, but CLT-AUA did not. Fortunately, it was on a last-minute trip I wasn't emotionally or financially invested in. I'd set a mental deadline of 4pm today for the upgrade to clear, before reserving accommodations, or canceling the flight if they did not clear.
I'll cancel it now and a coach flyer will be unknowingly happy when they make it on the oversold flight.