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Apr 29, 2013 | 12:16 am

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Originally Posted by gaobest

Thanks guys. I was able to see the seat map for Round Trip tickets but *not* multi-destination tickets.

My concern is that for SFO/CDG, sometimes only 1-2 seats are available in Premium Economy. I learned this by plugging in dates for the roundtrip. But when I tried to book 3 seats in PE for SFO/CDG/Italy, I was able to buy the 3 seats but now that I know that only 1-2 seats are available, then how does AF handle it if only 1-2 seats are available but they are selling 3 seats in PE? I need to have the 3 seats together as we are a family of 3. So what wouldn't be acceptable is if I buy 3 seats in PE and there are only 2 seats available in PE on the seat map.

Thanks
Michael

You know, for all airlines, a seat map is hardly a reflect of actual bookings. Airlines often blocks some seats (for advance seating selection) for whatever reasons (e.g. baby basinet) and release them after. Some bookings are also unconfirmed and never get confirmed.
I have seen countless times flights with all seats pre-booked and leaving quite empty or the opposite, few seats pre-selected and finally flight completely packed.

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