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[quote=Anonymous][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]

What? We fly regularly. If the algorithm says a flight isn’t seeing enough interest, they absolutely cancel it and move you to another one. Not the day before, but weeks or months before. It happens to use probably once a year. Just happened on our flight over to London this summer. Virgin got rid of the later overnight flight and moved us all to the earlier one. [/quote]

That's a schedule change/adjustment, and it's done months in advance and across the entire schedule to sync everything up.  As you said, your flight was not cancelled, but the time was shifted.  Sometimes yes there are significant cancellations as part of this, but it's done broadly across an entire market, not on a specific day basis.  As an example, United used to have 3 flights a day to London from Dulles, but since fall 2023 they have dropped that to 2 because of lower demand and a desire to utilize those planes on other routes.  But dropping that flight was done across the schedule, 6 months in advance.[/quote]

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