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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So early. It will fill or they will cancel it.[/quote]

No idea where people got this idea that airlines periodically cancel individual flights if there aren't enough bookings.  It's a very costly thing to cancel a flight- the entire system is a ballet of staff, airplanes going from location to location, cargo, etc.  It may seem like cost savings to cancel a flight if its only half full, but if it hasn't been planned out and managed, it's usually a net cost.  That's why they have an ongoing planning process and schedule overhaul that is done 6+ months in advance.  Of course there are tweaks here and there, but not based on individual flights.

And to the OP's question- seats reserved have no direct relationship with total tickets booked, etc. Especially with most seat reservations having costs now. A seat map is simply not indicative of much of anything until a couple of hours before a flight.[/quote]
This. It’s not getting cancelled because the plane needs to be repositioned either way, or there is a chain reaction of delays. [/quote]

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