Seat Booking - Cabin Full
Jul 4, 2022, 7:17 am
#31
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond, IHG Spire
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Does BA not wish to generate additional revenue and is doing exactly the opposite by restricting option to purchase seats that are there for the taking? As Yetak stated....counter intuitive to me at least whether to purchase a seat or to choose one. And Yetak is absolutely correct..I am taking up bandwith on the BA phone system that could be better used for others with larger issues ie cancellations, baggage delays etc and it does cause stress that is not necessary.
I'm not going to argue that certain passengers will call BA unnecessarily and BA could do a better job of course. However this month is not "normal" in many ways and in normal times we don't see such a full flights all the day every day, hence we see more passengers asking these questions.
We have a thread somewhere where people with internal BA load sheet access confirmed that BA is 0 out flights even those flights is far from full. Probably this is the reason that on short haul less likely a downgrade/upgrade or a denied boarding scenario. What has increased on many of the flights I've taken is that many people sitting randomly from their family as they either have no status or moved to that flight last minute and only those few random seats were available.
Jul 5, 2022, 5:40 pm
#32
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: England
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 278
Looking on expertflyer, your flight shows 9 seats unalloctaed seats. You can't see them on your booking because those seats are in row 1 (only Golds can see this at the moment) and row 8 which as it's the last row in the cabin is usually blocked from selection. These seats should be available for selection from 72 hours before scheduled departure.
Just hope our return BA 2551 on 31st July survives the latest cull !
Jul 25, 2022, 1:29 am
#33
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: England
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Trying to book our seats for the return BA2551 on 31/7. 4 unallocated seats left a pair each on row 9 and 10. Emergency exit seats. Click on them for each passenger , tick the box that we are all suitable people to sit on an exit row, get an email saying I’ve changed seats but in MMB it’s saying I haven’t chosen my seats. Repeated this exercise countless times in the last 20 hours but the seat choice never sticks. Is this just a temp glitch or is there a work around ? Thanks
Jul 25, 2022, 1:57 am
#34
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Krakow
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Trying to book our seats for the return BA2551 on 31/7. 4 unallocated seats left a pair each on row 9 and 10. Emergency exit seats. Click on them for each passenger , tick the box that we are all suitable people to sit on an exit row, get an email saying I’ve changed seats but in MMB it’s saying I haven’t chosen my seats. Repeated this exercise countless times in the last 20 hours but the seat choice never sticks. Is this just a temp glitch or is there a work around ? Thanks
Jul 25, 2022, 2:04 am
#35
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: England
Programs: BA Silver
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