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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
I am a flight attendant and I’m sorry, but you are wrong or misinformed.

In OPs case, ?-MIA, there are a whole plane full of people in MIA waiting to fly somewhere. The plane needs to get to MIA so it can take the people to ?, and then from ?, to … and … So on and so forth.

And I’ve flown many a flight where there are fewer than 10 pax on board. The plane, as someone else said, will be repositioned with the crew for the next flight.

Airlines DO NOT cancel a flight because there isn’t anyone on it. It would become a non-revenue ferry flight, but it’s going out, because someone where it is going needs it and/or the crew there. [/quote]

What the PPs are trying to say is that flights are often "canceled" (or "merged" with other flights) months in advance. Obviously, they are not canceled the week prior. So with that said, it is entirely possible for this flight to be somehow changed so that there is no longer a late evening flight to MIA on that day.[/quote]

Exactly. This happens all the time and I’m shocked people are saying it doesn’t.[/quote]

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