Does anyone know if the following flights are overbooked?

[Jodi1980]

Sat, Jun 26: AMERICAN AIRLINES, AA 1587
Fort Worth, TX, to Seattle, WA

or

Wed, Jun 30: AMERICAN AIRLINES, AA 0856
Seattle, WA, to O'Hare, Chicago, IL

Thank you!

 

[my3kids]

 

[sgtdisney]

Originally posted by Jodi1980
Sat, Jun 26: AMERICAN AIRLINES, AA 1587
Fort Worth, TX, to Seattle, WA

That flight is showing 2 seats available and a number of seats open in First class. There are probably more in coach though, as you can't see the special seats (exit rows, etc.) from AAs website.

Originally posted by Jodi1980

Wed, Jun 30: AMERICAN AIRLINES, AA 0856
Seattle, WA, to O'Hare, Chicago, IL

Thank you!

That flight is showing quite a few seats available in coach and first class is wide open.

So, to answer your question, neither flight is overbooked at this point.

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

AA1587 DFW - SEA F7 A7 Y7 B7 H7 M4 L2 S0 V0 G0 K0 N0 W0 Q0

F and A are the First Class fare buckets, Y is full-fare economy, B, H, M, and L are all economy class, so it looks like AA is still willing to sell some seats. That doesn't necessarily mean they're NOT overbooked, but since there's a fairly large # of seats available (7), then they're not likely to be oversold

AA856 SEA - ORD F7 A7 Y7 H7 B7 K7 M7 L7 W7 G7 V7 S0 Q0 O0

Looks like there's plenty of seats for sale on this one

 

[Jodi1980]

Thank you!

Where can you find this information on AA's website?

 

[tjmw2727]

Originally posted by Jodi1980
Thank you!

Where can you find this information on AA's website?

Under reservations, go to check available seats. I don't think you even have to log in.

TJ

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

The info that I posted (at least the format that it's in) ... well ... unless you're really interested in air travel, it's probably easier to just look at the easy-to-read version on the AA website ... if you're really interested in getting the "travel agent style" view, send me a PM, and I'll give you a link.

Additionally, airlines are required to tell you if a flight you're on is oversold, if you ask. The agents, however, are NOT required to tell you by how many the flight is oversold. (some may, if you can manage to sweet-talk it out of them, most will not give up this information ... Yield/Revenue management is a pretty well concealed corporate secret)