Originally Posted by
the-doctor
Hi,
Trying to get head around this...BA438 LHR-AMS next tuesday. Selected 9A when i booked it some weeks back..all good. Now BA and EF are now showing all other seats in rows 8 and 9 as blocked. They haven't moved the curtain back else they'd presumably have booted me back with it, and they're not available to select as a GCH on ba.com. So why the block?
Makes no difference as it's a short flight yadda yadda, just intreagued as to the thinking/processes behind it?
Thanks
Potential curtain move.
It's not theoretical seating, as that won't be active yet for a flight on Tuesday.
Given that the curtain could
potentially move, they block out a couple of rows to prevent more people from selecting there at the moment, but they don't actively evict people from those seats until it
actually moves. Likely the curtain moved back a bit and rows 8 and 9 are now that "safety zone" in case it needs to move back further.
EDIT:
KARFA beat me to it.