Originally Posted by
efincomputer
It's possibly just that the system doesn't know how to handle it when an aircraft doesn't have CE from the get-go, and it's just used to holding the first 3 rows for potential CE sales until t-72?
Exactly. The first three rows of ET are automatically blocked for possible curtain moves, both on CJ and BA mainline. So this looks like it might have been exactly the same process in play, applied to a cabin where CE doesn't exist so the notional curtain is immediately ahead of row 1.