Originally Posted by
San Gottardo
Funny you post this now - as I was coming here to write about an unexpected seat blocking experience.
Flying in Y, ZRH-CDG, A220 plane. On the seat map during check-in, the middle seat next to me showed open - which I wasn’t sure how to read. Could be that it shows open to me because I as an ULTI could have selected it. Or it could be that its selectable for everyone.
Now there is a person sitting next to me, whilst the five rows behind me have empty middle seats, and some of the window seat on the A/C side are also available. The person sitting next to me boarded very late (could be a late Group 1 boarder, or a Group 4-5 passenger).
was flying this week thursday the other direction CDG-ZRH on the A220. A few days before the seat next to me got greyed out, which led me to think that seat blocking did its job. However, I ended up sitting next to another person and noticed while looking around a few empty seats. I'm not sure if it is ideal to have this job running on T-xy. Why not block the seat right after booking? We all understand in case the flight is full, these blocked seats will need to be released, but at least it could be avoided that the seat is taken by another pax.