Originally Posted by ojs555

Hmmm... OK, let me paint you a picture...

CE is oversold...
... Mr DYKWIA turns up and all A/C and D/F seats have been allocated in CE. Mr D. has a CE ticket.

Are we really going to put Mr D in economy (where he has no seat pre-allocated because his pre-assigned seat in CE had been given up)... Thereby resigning him to 25E?

I'm not saying it's going to happen. But, as happened to myself on the Comair flight, surely it's better to allocate a middle seat rather than send a CE passenger south of the curtain and pay them denied boarding compensation?

Still. By their results we shall judge them!