Child seat to extra seat on American

[Albee412]

Flying from jfk to tlv next week with my $400 round trip flights. I booked 3 seats me my wife and my 1 year old I booked a seat as well for. Now I plan on leaving the 1 year old and flying with only my wife. Am I going to have the third seat as an extra seat or is American going to give it away? Or should I cancel his ticket and get a flight credit and forsure not have an extra seat

[Moshe Green]

Flying from jfk to tlv next week with my $400 round trip flights. I booked 3 seats me my wife and my 1 year old I booked a seat as well for. Now I plan on leaving the 1 year old and flying with only my wife. Am I going to have the third seat as an extra seat or is American going to give it away? Or should I cancel his ticket and get a flight credit and forsure not have an extra seat

a) i don't understand why they would give it away if you paid for it? is that a normal thing for them to do when passengers don't show up?
b) why do you assume that you will definitely not have the extra seat if you cancel? now is a slow time so there's a good possibility that the seat will be empty...

[moko]

a) i don't understand why they would give it away if you paid for it? is that a normal thing for them to do when passengers don't show up?
b) why do you assume that you will definitely not have the extra seat if you cancel? now is a slow time so there's a good possibility that the seat will be empty...

extremely common practice to give away "no show" seats. They even announce it

[Abebee]

a) i don't understand why they would give it away if you paid for it? is that a normal thing for them to do when passengers don't show up?

All the time, They'll give the seat to standby passengers.