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Old Oct 11, 2022 | 10:42 am
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rankourabu
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Originally Posted by HNLbasedFlyer
I'm curious why you think a lot of people don't select a seat, especially up front? Does some sort of research suggest this? Upgrades auto-assign you a seat. All the major booking sites either force you into a booking path to select seats or make it very easy to select a seat - I'm having a hard time believing people are buying F and deliberately and actually going out of their way to not choose a seat.
OPM flyers who have their tickets booked for them may never bother to select their seats.
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