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Jan 15, 2008 | 5:14 pm

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burghboys

Join Date: Oct 2006

Location: Somewhere between Pittsburgh and Akron

Programs: Marriott Plat,Priority Club Plat

Posts: 215

Quote:

Originally Posted by elonepb

If I can buy seats on the 10:23AM and the 8:50PM flights, then it is not sold out. It would seem like a bug in the system that it wouldn't show an available seat as available when doing a normal search, regardless of class of fare.

And I'm assuming that the 36 empty seats I count on the plane are just unassigned - maybe booked off of travel site?

You can not always go by what the seat map shows. I looked in shares and there are a lot less than 39 seats left to sell. The noon departure is completely sold out.