Graziella5b

I am traveling alone in a long international overnight American Airlines flight, I am coming back on the end of the month (June) right now there are 28 free seats but all of them are interior seats, I do need an aile, I am a Senior and need to get up at night etc,/
I believe that most likely some aile seats will appear in aa.com at a certain time, Has anywone know how many days before departure day>?
I wish to be alert and grab one. It is so important to me.
Any other suggestion>>? Thank YOu.

bettyk

On most AA flights, you can pay extra for a choice seat closer to the front of the aircraft. Some of theses seats are aisle seats.

Go to "view available seats" for your particular flight to see if any of these seats are available for purchase.

https://www.aa.com/seatmap/viewSeats...false&from=Nav

Graziella5b

The ticket is expensive and do not wish to spend more .
I believe it makes sense that an x number of days before each flight the airliners offer a larger selection of seats in their websites, including aisle seats. my question is supposing this is true , does anyone knows how many days before a particular flight the airliner offers all the available seats?

Rastaguytoday

Ya pays your money or ya takes your chances.

The chances are that an AA premium person will grab the aisle seats, as they aren't blocked for us.

MrNuke

You need to rectify this:

<i>" I do need an aile, I am a Senior and need to get up at night etc"</i>

versus this

<i>"The ticket is expensive and do not wish to spend more."</i>

If an aisle seat is as important as you make it seem to you in your initial post (and really only you can decide this) then pay the money to guarantee your seat.

<i>"I believe it makes sense that an x number of days before each flight the airliners offer a larger selection of seats in their websites, including aisle seats. my question is supposing this is true , does anyone knows how many days before a particular flight the airliner offers all the available seats?"</i>
Your premise isn't necessarily accurate. As noted already the seats are available for AA frequent flyers from now until booking and may or may not be available to the general flyers all the way through check-in. If you really want an aisle seat, buy it.

MrNuke

The above post should've rade AA frequent flyers from now until <b>the flight</b> instead of now until booking.

suze

If I wasn't able to get a seat assignment when I bought the ticket online, sometimes there has been a 'change seat' option but only in the 24 hours in advance when I'm priting a boarding pass.

Other than that I've not been able to get an assignment until I was at the airport day of the flight (and begged every customer service person I spoke with for an aisle seat).

bettyk

I have always been able to get a seat assignment on AA when booking my ticket online.

For our trip last month through LHR from DFW, I was able to upgrade our regular economy seats to main cabin seating (more legroom, wider seat, etc) several months before our departure and secured DH an aisle seat for $98 per person more. All of this was done online. Maybe this was possible because I purchased our tickets months in advance.

Rastaguytoday

bettyk

What equipment have you been flying?

AA hasn't rolled out their international + seats, and the 777-300er won't begin implementation in the U.S. until November.

bettyk

Rastaguytoday, we flew on the new 777-300ER a few weeks ago from DFW to LHR. I think this has been available since March according to this article:

http://therewillbeaplace.com/2013/03...ndon-heathrow/

However, on our return flight to DFW, we were on a plain OLD 777. At least we had upgraded to Biz Class. But Biz Class in the new 777-300ER looked so much nicer.