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Northwest Seat Availability
Hello,
Is there a site on Northwest where i can see how many seats have been sold on a certain flight? TIA j |
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Northwest Seat Availability
Is there a site on Northwest where i can see how many seats have been
sold on a certain flight? No. But you can see how many seats are still left to be sold at www.americanexpress.com and select Travel, then create a log-in code and password, and then select "advanced" options under the flights menu to see how much inventory is left for particular flights. This STILL won't give you a sense of how many seats are "sold", and really hardly matters how many seats have been "sold", because this is a fairly meaningless statistic. Some people will still cancel and others won't show up--the airline computers try to predict this and offer the number of seats for sale that might most closely match how many people might ACTUALLY fly, and will try to calculate how profitable it will be to offer 'X' number of seats. The number of seats actually "sold" is fluid, relative, and ultimately useless to know (for anybody flying). What really matters, and is shown on the ITN/Amex listing, is the number of seats LEFT to sell--which will include whatever number of seats Northwest has determined they can still OVERsell and have things come out in the wash (i.e. make a profit even if they might have to bump people in the form of asking for volunteers to take a different flight and giving them compensation). If you go to the ITN/Amex site and you see nothing but zeroes in all classes (e.g., Northwest won't sell anymore seats no matter what), then you at least know that the flights is oversold, and you might earn yourself a $300 credit voucher by volunteering at the gate (volunteer early for best chances). |
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