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

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).