Originally Posted by
trigleek
I have an upcoming EY flight AUH-PER in J next Thursday Jan 21st and it looks overbooked. I tried to select a seat but all the seats are unavailable.
What do you suggest I do? I have no status on EY. Would EY reroute me (AUH-BNE/MEL/SYD-PER) or make me wait a day? I thought they might downgrade me as well but Y is all booked too. Just curious. Thx.
Hi - Call them now.
Just make sure you've pre-selected a seat by calling up the reservations centre (they should release one of the standardly blocked seats) AND checked in online ASAP.
Then on the day get to the bag drop desk in good time.
The people that get bounced are those that turn up lateish at the AUH check in desks without having already checked in online.
Particularly in Y, it's a not uncommon sight to see aggravated denied passengers being ushered away to the rebooking desk. Etihad on a number of routes does seem to run things tight on overbooking aggressively.
On the subject of being downgrade to Y, always a possibility.
There were two passengers on my last EY flight earlier this month sat in the first row of economy (seats A and C on A330) being given the FULL business service by J class serving crew / the purser as J was completely full.