Originally Posted by
AviationMoose
I’m about 99% sure a chap just got on my flight and complained that he was unable to book 1C (next to me), because it showed online as ‘blocked’.
I heard ‘bloody disgrace’ and alas not what the crew said to him, but he didn’t glare at me so I’m assuming they didn’t dob me in.
I will miss the consequences of daft but amusing quirks like this!

There's a bug in the new online check-in seat selection that it shows all blocked seats as blocked to GGLs... easy to rectify by calling the GGL line, or at the airport.