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Old Aug 30, 2018, 3:56 pm
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Originally Posted by vernonc
OK. Maybe Y could be different. According to Expert Flyer Y=8. If I board and see 30 free seats, I will guess that Expert Flyer has some issues. I know when I checked in there were several rows of preferred seating available. I also know that some passengers would not pay for seat selection and may get assigned later. But Y=8 means that there should be only 8 available seats in Y.
Y is overbooked. Y8 means that they're willing to SELL 8 seats, not that there are 8 available.
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