Originally Posted by
zoegksf
It's is because many the elites that used to occupy those seats have moved on to OAL's. I have noticed on many of my recent flight, esp. this year, that E- is packed and E+ with perhaps a handful and exit row(s) empty leading me to believe the handful are Silvers and buy in's.
More like people that don't pick a seat when they book and since they check in last get the "See Agent" message on their boarding pass to which the GA has to assign them a E+ seat because the passenger didn't want to pay for it. Real fair system.