Apologies if this has been posted before, but searches failed to find any definitive answer.

When the QF booking system takes a booking for non status passengers, does it initially assign actual seat numbers, to the extent that seats would then show as occupied in ExpertFlyer?

We have bookings LHR-SIN-SYD & return for next March/April in Y+.

MMB & checkmytrip don't show any seat assignments.

Due to computer gremlins at booking time I was unable to see a before & after state on Expertflyer, but it now shows just two occupied seats on each trip.

The question is therefore.... might they be ours?