<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sfokilla:
At the gate, we see something similar to:
9-*C-*-
This means that people are in 9A, 9D, and 9F. 9C is open, and 9B and 9E are blocked. There's no distinction made between a blocked seat next to a 1K or a blocked seat next to a *S. I suppose that, in a perfect world, we could pull up individual PNRs while assigning seats at the gate and prioritize that way, but that would consume an enormous amount of time. And surely you have all seen how insanely busy we GA's can get during the last few minutes of a full flight. When we need seats but only *s (blocked seats) remain on the seat map, automation assigns the *s in E- from front to back, and then the *s in E+ from front to back.
...a UA GA</font>
Thanks for the info
