Originally Posted by
Robert Leach
Don't know if it will apply to the upgrade scenario or not, but in researching F travel LAX-ATL around January 1-5, it looks like something has changed. Haven't seen it announced, and maybe this is glitchy Delta IT at work, but if you look at seats occupied versus seats available to sell (through a test booking), it looks like if two people are traveling together and seated together in F, the second person of the two doesn't count against the 50% capacity. In general, if you look at the seat maps, it appears that you can sell one seat for each unoccupied pair of seats, even if the cabin is already at 50% capacity.
I reserve the right to be wrong, but it looks to me like something has been tweaked. Assuming it's true, will be interested to see if it translates to the gate upgrade battleground.
I flew back from EYW today in C+ and 2AB sat there empty because F was already booked at 6 people on an A319. I am tired of it.
It appears your right. Was doing a dummy booking on DL1558 on 1/9/21 and the 753 has a max F cap at 11 (1BC is reserved for FA) and there were 6 people already in F, but they were all couples and it appeared it was only counting them as 3 against inventory vs 6. This is great news although not sure why this policy needs to wait until January to start.