Hi,
Over last weekend, flew for the first time 2 flights with Aegean since they implemented this paying seat option. As I had expected, A3 is really screwing their Elite members with this, as for both flights, (am not profiling), it was clear that these payable seats were open to codeshare passengers for free and also at check-in they seem to give these seats up if passengers are separated (I did casually ask a couple about their seats and they told me that they got it at check-in because there were no other seats together). Most obvious was the ATH-CAI flight, the whole front section was clearly filled up with I am sure none of them paid for those seats.
I really cannot understand why Aegean is squeezing or testing their Gold members on this aspect, just to gain that few thousand Euro's? Is anyone complaining to Customer Service on this?
Cheers!