For a brief moment of time, an aisle seat near the front of the Y cabin became available and I received a notification about it from EF. I switched my seat asap, which I'm glad I did as the other seats in the row were back to being blocked an hour or two later. They were empty on the flight so I had a free seat next to me on which to plonk my bag.

I'm not a frequent flyer but EF made one of my flights a lot nicer. Thanks EF.