Originally Posted by
ExpertFlyer Voice
No, there is no discrepancy. Those seats are available, you are just blocked from reserving them. Here is why:
As you can see the seats are in fact available, they are just shown to you as blocked (or in most websites case, "unavailable") because your ticket class can't reserve them. However they are in fact Available as you can see when looking at the true seat map.
Does it make sense to add advance seatmap search which allow user to select the 'letter' to look for? As you say the system returns a different avaialbility for different selling classes so it makes sense for people to check their own booking class and not the highest one (as the seatmaps are normally for that one i guess).