Originally Posted by
LH600
Ah that might answer the question, its more than T-72h
I hope that it will work though on an intercont flight witz more than 20seats open in Y
it is part of the ALTEA software package, it 'works' on every flight for airlines that use the package ( lh, os, lo, ba, qr ...)
If the seat next to you is not occuppied at t-72 it will be blocked. As more and more people check in, ALTEA will use an algorithm to decide which seats to unblock. On BA it is very much status based.
Several days out, the seat map is not a good way to decide if a flight is busy. Many PAX have probably not paid to select a seat and one will not yet be allocated.
The quieter the flight and the less status heavy, the more likely the block will hold. I do well on krk fra, not so well on fra lhr
A lot of info about theoretical seating on the BA forum.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...ng-status.html
(a big thread, but read the first few posts)
BA use status to decide which to unblock. LH may be a bit more complicated, it might be some combination of status and price paid, or, like ba, it could just be status