They say only a "handful" of seats will be held back for this $15. That's better than I was expecting, for now at least. I really don't have a problem if they are holding some decent seats back for the last minute buyer, as long as it doesn't make the situation worse for the other 95% of pax on the flight. It seems like they are still looking out for their elites (sortof) by 'allowing' them to purchase the seats 36 (?, i read it somewhere) hours out, as opposed to others at only 24 hours out. We'll see how this goes. I hope it doesn't spread around to everyone else in the industry, but that may be inevitable.

dan