Originally Posted by
QRC3288
Yea those two seats are regularly held for ID ticket pax. But, they definitely sell them sometimes. How often I'm uncertain, but I've definitely seen situations where paying pax are there. (I used to think they didn't sell them at all to normal pax, but that's clearly wrong.)
CX definitely sells the seat to revenue passengers (aka on the 46 J seat A35K they don't just sell 44 J seats, they sell all 46 J seats. (I have seen their internal inventory level vs GDS availability).
11DG (along with 12AK) are blocked for seat pre-selections, and usually blocked for OLCI selection as well. They aren't "held for ID pax" per-se. However, because the seats are blocked for selection, they usually ended up being the last 2 seats to be assigned. If a flight is full full, then some unlucky revenue pax which did not pre-select a seat will be assigned to those seats. The reasons why 11DG are more often than not filled by ID pax are solely because they are the last people to get assigned seats, with 11DG being the final seats to be assigned usually.