Originally Posted by
kered
If nether of those conditions apply to your booking, then you can’t get a seat assigned until you either OLCI, or as I would suspect in the case of most holiday makers, present your self at the check-in desk.
The only caveat being if there’s baby in the group, then pre-assignment opens up to that group.
So the potential for chaos & ranting & raving at Check-in is huge. But with inflexibility of the policy, the ground staff can do nothing.
So imagine those passengers disquiet, when they learn because they have no
status they’re going to be scattered around the cabin
I'm sure you're right about the majority of holiday makers not discovering this until the get to the airport, but equally I'm sure the vast majority of people wouldn't know whether their seat had been pre-assigned by a computer the day before, or by a check in agent while they're standing in front of a desk, and surely that's one way to take the sting out of most of this - get the computer to randomly assign seats throughout the cabin for groups of three or more in the same PNR immediately prior to the opening of OLCI. Surely that will take away a lot of the pain because the families will be together and the singles and couples can slotted in more easily?