Originally Posted by
Ausriver
I've just got op-uped to J from PEY last night HKG-SYD. Received email from expertflyer about seat change at -2 hours. However, it still shows as 8J 1W 9Y at -1 hour, and there are still 2 seats empty (unselected) at PEY section.
Is this a normal practise for CX to op-up someone so they can free 1 seat at the lower cabin just in case?
That can be one of the followings:
* The 1W might just be J being sold as W at the last few hours, in which case W was already oversold. They were op-upping W passengers before boarding.
* There might be Y->W instant upgrades that hadn't been processed, and they had to op-up W passengers to make room for such upgrades.
* Or perhaps others...
It is difficult to imagine CX op-upping passengers for no reason.