Originally Posted by
deltaflyinglawyer
Just last week my friend could book LH C on second attempt. Outbound on Sat and Inbound on Mon. So LH blocking is an urban legend. LH seats are available when SHARES is not out of order and the agents are not blind.
Not sure what kind of legend it is, but the agent today did find those seats on Saturday (which was my preferred day), however could not see any intra-Europe the following day, I had to add a connection through VIE on OS. I assume the agents yesterday hadn't actually searched segment by segment, however said they did.
The only way I booked LH on other days (not Wed/Sat) was when an agent "tried something", probably a long-sell without me prompting. This was in the summer, and later I needed to book another friend on the same itin, I called another dozen times and couldn't get anyone else to see those intra-EU seats, even when they "sent a request to the partner airline" a few times. Nobody would manually request/long sell.