Originally Posted by
Aus ATC
Hi,
Does Emirates block seats for "comfort" purposes? I am flying Economy with my wife and have reserved A + C seats. I am Qantas Gold and the system seems to equate that to Skywards Gold. Hoping my status will see the B seat blocked (assuming the flight is undersold of course). Any ideas? thanks.
No, but two strategies:
Choose seats in the preferred section and if flight isn't full hopefully the seat won't be taken. As they're paid for most pax chances are this section isn't as full. Other option is select seats at the back as they'll be the last to fill if flight isn't full.
You can change seats and monitor seat map up until quite close to departure on the app usually, depends on the departure point. So monitor and adjust as the seat map fills.