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Originally Posted by Puxlut
If it's an Air Canada flight you can select the flight like you were going to book it and then under the flight number it says "seat selection" and that will give you an idea which seats are available or how full the plane is.
Not sure if other carriers do the same thing.
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Actually the seat selection tool just shows what seats haven't yet been pre-sold/reserved. When booking a flight, passengers are giving the option of pre-reserving their preferred seat for a nominal fee. At the 24 hour check-in period, you can select your seat for free (most airlines allow this) save for the ones that have already been purchased.
It has nothing to do with how many seats on the flight are open. Imagine how easy it would be to determine an airlines competitiveness on any given flight/date/route. That's the type of information airlines strive to protect.