I knew I couldn't check in online, but I went to the AA site anyway, to see what seats looked like. We have assigned seats, but was looking to see what seats were available. There was as notice that popped up, asking if our plans were flexible, offering to allow ourselves to volunteer to be bumped, it appeared for a minimum of $600. Is that something new, as I have never seen that before?

I couldn't tell whether it is really oversold or not. There looked to be a couple dozen seats available, so I don't know whether it is all people who never paid for an assigned seat or what. If so, I guess they will get a better seat than we did, considering there are basically no 'regular' economy seats left to be able to assign. If you try to buy a ticket, you could buy it for $249 one way, so it doesn't make sense it is actually oversold.

I don't think I would ever volunteer on the way down, but it might enter my mind for the return trip!!