Originally Posted by
chrisw
There are some seats in E- (usually towards the back) that are blocked from preassignment by non-elites. (I believe some of the 2-somes in the back of the 744 fall into this category.) This could be the case.
There's a thread about it somewhere. It's pretty complicated IIRC, like, they're abailable to full fares and elites, or just elites. From various dummy bookings is was extremely difficult to a pattern, and agents didn't now either (of course).
Yep that's right.. There are 19 open seats in the back of the plane on this flight that I can see as a 1K..but none of them would show available to someone without status. There are also 59 open E+ seats... I might be inclined to buy the E+ access for $349.