Originally Posted by
cblaisd
Or did I just get lucky....
In the last few days, I have have had two (ugh) CRJ200 flights. At exactly 24 hours, I do OLCI to switch seats to 1B (for at least a tiny bit of legroom and to be first off this miserable excuse for an airplane).
Both times when I did the seat change, 1A was showing as open on the seat map. After I checked in, 1A was showing as taken.
Neither plane was full and indeed there was no one in 1A on either flight.
Happened again this week.
At OLCI, changed to 1B (both 1A and 1B were showing open). After changing, 1A shown as occupied. This persisted all the way to boarding. In fact, I went to the gate agent and showed him the iPhone seat map showing that 1A was occupied and he said "there's nobody in that seat."