Originally Posted by
OnslowSW7
Subscribed and tried on 2 BA short haul flights today. Sadly the seat maps were pretty inaccurate at showing which were blocked/free. I was very excited at an empty middle seat until my neighbour arrived… 😂
in fact- it’s got the departure time wrong (showing 1250 instead of 1235) and showing 7 rows of biz rather than 9… possibly last minute equipment change
Would you mind DMing me the flight number please so I can double check the change in time and equipment? Very possible this was the case...
Generally speaking we have no cache on our seat map data so each time you load the seat map it's the live data that's getting returned by the GDS (we are using Amadeus for the majority of traffic). With that said, within the 2 hours prior to departure there will likely be regular changes to the seat map as people ask to be re-assigned to different seats when checking in / dropping bags, or even at the gate itself. It's a long winded way of me saying we do our best to get the most accurate data available, but unfortunately seat assignments are not a perfect science right before departure.