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Old Feb 28, 2015 | 1:31 pm
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Originally Posted by DominicB
Good heavens - I thought it was just one or two. So only golds would have seen those extra seats? That explains it!
The way it used to work was that non-Golds could only get X class seats. But Golds could use any V class seat on an award. So if the flight is showing V9 X0, a Gold will see 9 award seats and a non-Gold will see zero.

I don't know whether this is universally true at the moment, because it's been a while since I last did a comparison.
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