Norwegian Air UK (DI) blocking seats to make flight look full
Oct 16, 2018, 6:42 am
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Norwegian Air UK (DI) blocking seats to make flight look full
Looking at the seat map below for my upcoming flight, 25 GBP seems very tempting to ensure I get one of the few remaining non-middle seats (pic cut off at row 27 due to screen cap but the same trend continues farther back in the plane)...
But EF tells a different story:
The flight is still almost completely empty. Now, that is bound to change as checkin opens and seats are assigned and obviously there's no guarantee of an aisle or window at checkin, but I can't help thinking that blocking a bunch of random seats is extremely deceptive for people who may not know any better.
But EF tells a different story:
The flight is still almost completely empty. Now, that is bound to change as checkin opens and seats are assigned and obviously there's no guarantee of an aisle or window at checkin, but I can't help thinking that blocking a bunch of random seats is extremely deceptive for people who may not know any better.
Oct 16, 2018, 7:47 am
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That is sort of true, although those seats are available to AA elites. So they do not show up on EF as "seat block", rather they show up as "premium" or something like that. These seats seem to be blocked such that nobody can choose them. Admittedly though I am not all that familiar with DI.