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Old Nov 3, 2019, 3:10 pm
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Originally Posted by dlflyer00
Unless you pay for it, you are without a seat assignment until OLCI, in which case the system decides to either assign you a seat or standby you. I was standby’d for this segment, and logic follows that you would clear pax in the order of the standby list.
My point is that BE fares mean that you take the seat DL gives you, with no promises what type of seat it will be or anything about "priority" for better seats.
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