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Old May 14, 2024 | 11:42 pm
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Originally Posted by ffriess
as adviced I ask again shortly before OLCI.
Are there any issues to be expected with that flight or A388 right now?
yesterday suddenly the available seats reduced dramatically from more than 2/3 to only few left. Is this normal shorrly before OLCI? A reason to get nervous?
the seats available to select reduce dramatically at t-72 when theoretical seating kicks in. As your flight is on the 17th, that would have been yesterday. I have included part of the seat map below. Any seat with an X is blocked. Not occuppied.

theoretical seating blocks lots of seats, including blocking seats in order to try to keep your party of 3 sat next to each other. You will see many blocks of 3, it would not surprise me when you che k in one or 2 of these are shown to you.

Much more info about theoretical seating in this thread.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1787834-faq-theoretical-seating-blocked-seats-status.html

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