Originally Posted by
wtjulianchan
Thanks for your response, and yes I know the "boarding sequence number", despite its name, doesn't actually affect the way in how boarding works. It just appears on your boarding pass, and on some airlines, the lower number you are, the higher chance of you being prioritised/op-uped.
I just don't understand how EK allocates these numbers, because for many airlines the BN should be according to the time one OLCIs.
I've never really noticed what the number has been - just thought it was one of those random things on the BP.
But I had an old BP stub in the desk, so just took that out to look at it. Sq no. 227.
That was on an A380, CDG-DXB, I was in J (using a mileage upgrade), and J was half empty with only 13 Golds & Silvers. So it's unlikely that it has anything to do with op up priority.
Then again, this was part of a SIN-CDG-SIN itinerary, and I bought the ticket 2 days before my SIN-DXB leg (the DXB-CDG was after a couple of months). So maybe I was the 227th person to buy a seat on that flight?
Maybe this is something we should ask Skywards.