Originally Posted by
Keter
I serously doubt that high % of blocked seats after T-48 and before T-24 (and not exactly from T-48 from what I can see) represents seats blocked for operational reasons. Neither these look like the seats urgently purchased after T-48 by the pax in a hurry
SIN-IST flights are full now and this reflects in the number of blocked seats (compared to BKK-IST which goes slightly lighter).
And going back to SGN-IST: the flight on the 2 NOV got 'PE section' blocked too this time except the first row in the middle after T-48 (but somewhat later to be strict, maybe from T-36 or so). Interesting to know what stands behind those blockings and what is the actual TK system status of those seats showing blocked on Expertflyer.
So after approx T-48 many seats got taken (as per th EF seatmap, not blocked but taken to be more accurate). When I logged in to me reservation the 'taken' seats were not available for selection/ purchase. This is interesting as almost all 'PE' section seats were 'taken' (except few seats in the first row).
After the check in started the system assigned a seat to me which was not shown as taken before. However it is showing as taken after I started the check in process.
Not sure how this works and what this means - woould be good to know. Still 'blocking'/ 'taking'/ 'assigning' PE seats by the system after T-48 looks nonsense/ potential revenue loss to me as the setas for sure were not taken by the actual passengers and the 'taken' seats are not available for sale anymore.