Originally Posted by
Stephenk82
Hi all,
I'm travelling DUB > DXB return in a week or so, and I've chosen the lighter load flights, timings suit me better.
I have preselected my seats for a few weeks, and the seats selected still make the load look quite light - I know this can change quickly.
My question - on both my legs, with a fairly empty cabin, someone has selected the seat right beside me - on outbound the aisle seat beside my window seat even though other 2 window seat pairings remain free, and on the return flight were no window pairs free so I selected the only seat to be taken in the middle 3 seats in the whole cabin and someone selected the middle middle seat right beside me, even though every other seat remains empty??
As a gold do Emirates auto block seats beside me? Or do I have some crazy fans who want to sit beside me that I've never met??
It just seems too random for Emirates not to be doing this on purpose, but I've never seen it as an auto benefit of Skywards. I usually like to sweet talk at check in or the lounge to make this happen!
Any thoughts?
There is no automatic seat blocking - you may have a travel agent automatically allocating something randomly, or someone who is crazy and wants a middle seat.
Advise you to move your seat assignment now and then sweet talk at the check-in (lounge is better: lounge staff are actual EK staff, whereas check-in are sometimes contracted out, even though they wear the uniform) to move to any spare seats around.