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Old May 4, 2008, 7:22 pm
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vasantn
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Originally Posted by meteobob
I'm well aware that the seatmap on delta.com is an unreliable indicator of available seats given seats not yet assigned but purchased, etc.

However, I'm noticing that for my flight (#61) on May 17, there are a whole 12 seats not yet claimed in BE (out of 36). Yet, only one seat is available for purchase according to both delta.com and EF.

Is this unusual? [33% of the total BE cabin not assigned with a full cabin?]

Clearly delta not want to prevent 11 seats to be eligible for full BE purchase?

Bob
Not terribly unusual. Group bookings often don't have assigned seats.
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