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Old Jul 3, 2012 | 11:26 am
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Originally Posted by JM
2. Currently (July 3) there are no seats available in PE HNL-AKL but I did a "phantom" booking to see if there was space available in PE when I got the "seat assignment at the airport" message in June. There were several seats available then.
I suspect you have answered your question there. Looking at NZ9 for July it appears heavily (over)sold nearly every day it operates, so I suspect that NZ is withholding advance seat assignments to give flight editing flexibility to move people around to keep groups/families together, and clear upgrades as needed.
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