I know WP's and SG's have a relatively easy time getting a QP Lounge dragon or check in agent to block seats next to them, but I had one today in MEL outright lie to me.

I was checking in for a MEL-ADL flight and a friend was joining me on the same flight from a connection. At the QP I asked if I could block a middle seat giving us the entire row (on a 734) to which they replied 'no we cannot block seats'. I asked if the flight was full to which he replied "yes totally". I checked on qf.com and I can buy an N class fare still for $134.

Have I just caught one of the dragons in bread-toasting mode or as a PS are they always like this? I've usually had pretty good success with requesting seats to be blocked. If the flight isn't full they'll happily oblige with the tag line that they cannot assure me it will remain blocked if the flight fills up for any reason which seems fair to me.

Can anyone offer an oppinion, or is this the voodoo of QF seating

Drew