Originally Posted by
hoover
Has anyone noticed when they list for a non rev the amount of seats available are way higher than normal?
every flight on my commute tomorrow is only half full with many over 100 seats open. Never in the 8 years I've been flying this route have there ever been more than 20 open at time of listing.
Is this due to not having assigned seats?
if thisbis true its really going to be difficult to predict seat availability
Nope, the loads are really like that right now. I read an article about why that is recently. Basically, the high season is longer and more intense and the low periods are shorter and dryer.
Late January is typically pretty low. This year, January is the lowest block month of the year despite Feb being shorter. I am on a trip and the long legs have been packed and the shorter ones almost empty. There's a reason they picked this week to introduce assigned seating.