Hi all

I have recently started flying long-haul domestic on a regular basis and so have some questions about on-line check-in because it has me stumped!

Good example was last weekend when I flew MEL-PER on a 737-400. 24hrs prior to departure, all row 4 greyed out, me assigend 5D. Recheck on morning of departure, 4F now open (all others still grey) so I snag that. Two hours before departure, 4D available which I prefer so took that (all others still greyed out) . In QP checked seating again and all of row 4 now greyed out again.

So far so good? Well - get onto plane and I am the sole pax in row 4??!! How does that work? (The rest of economy class, bar two seats was full, and there were not enough biz class pax to account for 5 upgrades.)

Second question: I know QF sometimes blocks middle seats next to plats, but at what stage does this happen? Several times I have used OLCI and seen a middle seat in the first couple of rows as being available for selection (even though the flight is not full). So I assume that is available. However, on this same MEL-PER flight, all of row 5 was showing as greyed out, but the B and E seats were free at time of departure (as I mentioned above - rest of plane was packed).

I have always moved myself from a block of three seats where all of them are shown as occupied and tried to move to a seat where there is one showing free in the middle. Is this a bad move because it may be QF that has in fact blocked the middle seat already?

I hope the above is clear... I'm about to check-in for another flight (again to PER) so your comments arte appreciated.

Regards

lme ff