Originally Posted by
FlyingUnderTheRadar
I have been on at least one flight that went out with empty seats in FC while I was on the UG list and would have cleared. I could have asked but decided to see how it would play out as I wanted to observe and understand why the GA did not clear the UG list. In this case there was no obvious reason. I sent in a complaint with my observations with the comment that the GA just did not do their job.
As such, what did you observe? Did you say anything??
Usually it's because those seats are assigned to people who didn't show up and the GA doesn't want to offload someone until the last possible second.