clarrkkent

Yes, absolutely. Here’s one that isn’t the worst I’ve been on. It’s barely under 50% capacity, yet notice how passengers are crammed in the back, with multiple empty rows.

If their goal is to “distance” people, they aren’t doing a good job for the folks in economy. Particularly the people on saver fares. With 80 passengers, there isn’t a good reason to cram 24 of them into the back. Every row could conceivably have an empty middle seat and some people would still get an entire row to themselves.

Maybe they have to be moved manually. I flew a saver fare last week and the the seat “processor” placed me in a middle seat, right between two occupied seats and there were only 30ish people on the flight.

Edit to say that they are willing to move people who ask and without hesitation. I gather that most flyers aren’t the kind that look at seat maps to figure out the situation though.