Originally Posted by ajamieson
5. Seating priority...well the unofficial seat block still exists for Golds, IME...
Not IME.... The other evening I arrived at my assigned seat (1D) to find somebody in 1E. By an amazing stroke of good luck 1A, B, C and F were all empty.
I'm rather enjoying the extra space in the lounges and aircraft since bmi went modular. 51 pax on an A321 flight that used to be more-or-less full.