Originally Posted by
Cozmo456
From what I can remember, LH does not do this on the long hauls. But for sure LX does.
If you look at the seat charts on EF, they are even recorded there as blocked.
Seat blocking would stop the whining on upgrades. OK maybe only a little. From me yes.
Pretty sure they still do. I was flying DEL-FRA a few days ago and I was confirmed in 1K. The gentleman at the airport wanted very badly to move me somewhere else. I was having a horrible day and just wanted a quiet out of the way seat to sleep in so I was relatively emphatic on keeping that seat. In the end I did, but only because I showed him my earlier confirmation of the seat on my iPhone. On board, there was somebody next to me, and the guy he was traveling with was in 1A (with an empty seat next to him). I can think of no other good reason for those seats to be empty when J was almost entirely full.
On a complete unrelated note, the concierge in FRA (Alexandra) is an absolute star and provided service way above and beyond on that trip. Thank you Alex, you rock.