Originally Posted by
palmetto86
I think SHARES just adds the next higher sequence number anytime someone is checked-in, regardless if there are lower sequence numbers of people that were taken off or moved to another flight. I've had sequence numbers on Thurs evening ORD-DCA flights in the high 180s, even though the A320 flown only holds 144.
I think you're right...on a flight last weekend I was #312 on a 739, although that might be due to a different issue since that would imply over half the plane essentially checked in twice.
312 wasn't my original sequence number...I was initially 182 but I tried to standby for an earlier flight and when they closed that flight, I was for some reason taken off my confirmed flight. So I was caught in some sort of momentary purgatory where I wasn't on either flight. When the GA added me back to the flight, seq went from 182 to 312.