available seats on NWA.com?
Jan 6, 2008, 3:43 pm
#1
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Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 155
available seats on NWA.com?
Previous to purchasing other tickets on nwa.com I would check to see how many seats were available on my desired flights and thus gauge whether I could afford to wait longer to see if there would be any further drops in airfare before purchase.
I am not seeing the "seats available" option when flights are shown. Is there any way I can see how full my desired flights are getting?
Thanks for your help.
I am not seeing the "seats available" option when flights are shown. Is there any way I can see how full my desired flights are getting?
Thanks for your help.
Jan 6, 2008, 3:47 pm
#2
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Previous to purchasing other tickets on nwa.com I would check to see how many seats were available on my desired flights and thus gauge whether I could afford to wait longer to see if there would be any further drops in airfare before purchase.
I am not seeing the "seats available" option when flights are shown. Is there any way I can see how full my desired flights are getting?
Thanks for your help.
I am not seeing the "seats available" option when flights are shown. Is there any way I can see how full my desired flights are getting?
Thanks for your help.
Jan 6, 2008, 3:53 pm
#3
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: MSP
Posts: 239
And don't forget that seat maps are typically not available more than 90 days prior to the flight.
Jan 6, 2008, 3:57 pm
#4
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Jan 6, 2008, 6:50 pm
#5
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Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 155
Aha! cjheck hit the nail right on the head!
I was looking at a flight in May.
I backed it up to within the 90-day window and there was the seatmap I was remembering from the old nwa.com just where avidflyer said it would be.
Thanks for the assistance, folks! ^
I was looking at a flight in May.
I backed it up to within the 90-day window and there was the seatmap I was remembering from the old nwa.com just where avidflyer said it would be.
Thanks for the assistance, folks! ^
Jan 6, 2008, 8:01 pm
#6
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Also keep in mind that there is not a 1 to 1 mapping of tickets sold to seats allocated. Tickets can be sold without having a seat assigned, and thus not taking up a space on the seat map.
Jan 6, 2008, 8:53 pm
#7
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Rochester Hills, MI
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Seat availability
I don't know how accurate this is, but this site shows various ticket class availability that can be used to decide how fast the seats are filling. Due to the limitation of one digit for each class, you can't really know how empty the plane is.
HJ
HJ
Jan 14, 2008, 8:56 am
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Apparently the seat maps can be misleading. I wanted to use 'FlyNow/Standby' Friday morning to leave for DTW earlier in the day. Thursday I looked at seat maps by looking at flights using the reservation booking engine. There were many seats on several flights so I didn't check in at 23:59. So I get up at midnight and check flynow and get no options. When I called nwa.com to try to find out what was happening he tells me that many times there are rather full flights and the seats are issued by the GA just before boarding. Why they wouldn't want to 'show' these seats prior to the mad dash at the gate is beyond me. That was his explanation why I was not presented with any flynow/standby options. Go figure. Another hiccup in the new software, perhaps?