Originally Posted by
zombietooth
That is a stupid feature that has bothered me for a long time, along with the inability to have someone in another cabin on your PNR. I've been checking our next flight to TYO regularly to see how my daughter's UG prospects are looking for P+ (or a better E+ seat), and I have no visibility of the open seats because I am booked in Polaris. I have to log-in as her or not log-in at all.
You can just run a dummy search to see empty seats in all cabins, logged in or not.
I believe the idea of graying them out from your reservation is to prevent pax from mistakenly picking a seat in the wrong cabin. This seems a reasonable approach.