Originally Posted by
westi2002
There is however a problem for plats as well on short haul.
As you wrote, at T-72 additional EC seats open up. So I used to move myself from a full row 6-7 (chosen when making reservation) to an empty row 3-4. For the outbound it still can be done, but then the seatmap blocks for both flights due to "pending payment" and no more changes can be made.
Only during checkin for the inbound I can change my seat (row 6-7) if there are any available, since 2 days earlier Gold can choose already those seats. Not really customer friendly towards plats.
I’m not Plat, but this isn’t my experience. Firstly - at least for my wife’s flights this Friday which is the first time I’ve been paying attention - the curtain moved at the beginning of the day Tuesday (probably midnight but I was only looking in the morning) - so before T-72. Not sure if this is the standard though. Secondly, I’ve not seen the “pending payment” thing - but have noticed that once check-in is open for the first flight there appear to be two different routes to the seat map. The outbound is through the check-in flow, whereas the inbound is as normal from the reservation page (referring to the iOS app). I’ve certainly never had an issue getting to the seat map for the inbound after taking the outbound, so maybe tapping around will bypass your issues - hope that helps.