What does the Seat Selection info really mean?

Looking at the 'view or change seat' page on the VAA web site for my trip to LAX this week, it is showing a couple of seats free in PE. Does that mean that;

1) All seats except the 2 showing, are sold INCLUDING the unallocated bulkhead row seats?
2) When it show's ALL seats allocated (i.e. none that I could select or change my current choice to/from) does it mean that in fact that PE is then in reality oversold?

Thanks.

[Neil]

Only 60% of the seats in each cabin are available for pre-selection. So the all that the VS system is telling you when a seat map is unavailable is that the 60% available have been pre-selected. Bulk heads/Exit Rows are always only available for allocating at the airport.

Expert Flyer or similar is your best bet for knowing how full your flights is.

Neil

[ChuckC]

Hi, vizbiz:
Neil's right. By the way, the Expert Flyer info is 15/2/0 available (Upper,PE,Econ) so you've got a pretty full flight.

To be 100% certain I suggest you contact VS reservations who will tell you whether any PE seats are currently blocked (EF shows none are, but it's worth a call to satisfy your curiosity).

Chuck-

If Expert Flyer is showing '2' in PE does that mean that 36 of the 38 available seats have really been sold - irrespective of allocation/selection of existing passengers to seats, or does it take into account the 7 bulkhead/exit row seats; ie there are really only 29 actually sold?

[ChuckC]

'"Sold' or otherwise allocated

[Darren Wheeler]

The '2' tells you that there are just 2 seats left in that bucket. If the other buckets show 0 then it's all sold, if it shows 7 then there are 7 or more seats left. Expertflyer only shows up to 7 for VS.