Originally Posted by
Janette107
If the flight load show all classes have “0” for a flight does it indicate it will be a full flight? We have 8 people traveling and wonder if it’s better just to select our seats now. I have never flown BA before. Would it be difficult to get 4 seats together as soon as the 24 hour window opens?
Answer is probably / possibly / possibly. It indicates it's a very busy flight, but may not end up running 100% full for a variety of reasons.
As to the possibly's - If you want to guarantee you are sitting together, and don't mind paying BA's seat selection fee (which i'd never pay) then do it. However, BA is not 'ryanair-esque' in using algorythm's to try and deliberately sit you in separate seats across the plane to 'encourage' you to pay up in advance. They WILL try and seat you together, it just may not be possible due to amount of people on flight that have prebooked seats / card holders that get free seat allocation.
Personally i'd be logging in at 24 hours + 5 minutes before the flight to prebook - and you may end up in 3 different groups or so, but fairly confident that everyone would be sitting with someone they know.