Has anyone else noticed that domestic seat allocations seem to have gone to pot of late? Have had 'forward aisle' in my profile since Jesus was a lad. Always used to end up in the first few rows of Y.

Over the last 2 weeks, I have not had anything allocated in the front half of the plane.

Queried it in the QC today and the QF staffer reckoned that QF staff used to manually edit the auto-generated seating allocations to move FF's with status to their preferred seats. She said this has now been stopped and had not been well received by the staff who spend all day facing flyers with status.......

Have already shifted all my intl 'J' to VS and 'F" to SQ after last years changes. If domestic seating is going to be pot luck, am struggling to convince myself that DJ should not be used more.