Originally Posted by
LeisureFirst
This is what I did, but I would think it a rare occurrence. GCHs can get seating for their travelling companions on separate PNRs so you're talking about a Silver travelling CW with a Blue on a separate PNR and wanting to go upstairs; I wouldn't have thought that was common enough to take all the paid UD seats.
On the flight where I did it, the other buyable seats seemed to go one at a time, but I don't know what I can deduce from that. I suppose mine did too so you can't deduce very much: I took 64K and only when there were no more pairs available with one of the seats purchasable did I decide it was time to buy 64J.
One thing I will say is that paying £80 for two of you to sit together upstairs seems a lot more palatable than then £160 which two Blues would pay.
That's true but I read somewhere that SCHs exceed GCHs by a very large number so I think it could be something that occurs quite frequently. Mr SCH going on a business trip, Mrs SCH goes with him on a ticket booked separately, redemption or otherwise. Colleagues travelling together where one has status, the others don't. Couples travelling out together but back separately. The fact that they have included 64 A & K in the seats for purchase makes me think that this has not been done just for monetary reasons.
But it's an even nicer little earner for the airline than regular paid seating.