Originally Posted by
carrotjuice
Not exactly buying a free seat, but yesterday I was doing OLCI in for two persons on MH, each on a separate PNR.
One of them is OW Emerald (BA Gold) and once I selected his Y seat, the seat next to it was automatically blocked and I could not put the second passenger next to it. Looks like MH automatically keeps a free Y seat next to OW Emerald?
This was also my experience. It was an almost full flight (only 3-4 empty seats in Y).