Blocked Seats QF11 First Class?
May 23, 2011, 10:37 am
#1
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Blocked Seats QF11 First Class?
I have booked an F award on QF 11 for next March and when selecting a seat online find 2A and 3A unavailable. Is it likely these seats are actually reserved 10 months in advance or are they simply blocked for QF elites? If that's the case is there a time when blocked seats might be unblocked for non-elite F passengers?
May 23, 2011, 2:52 pm
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I have booked an F award on QF 11 for next March and when selecting a seat online find 2A and 3A unavailable. Is it likely these seats are actually reserved 10 months in advance or are they simply blocked for QF elites? If that's the case is there a time when blocked seats might be unblocked for non-elite F passengers?
May 23, 2011, 11:01 pm
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Blocked seats are rarely released prior to gate control on day of flight, but are readily available upon request (if you have the proper commercial importance to QF). But one of the features of the A380 F interior is that there are no bad seats and 2A/3A are really not worth fussing about. Easy for me to say as I usually get 2A even if I don't ask.
May 24, 2011, 2:57 pm
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I've looked at a lot of QF F seatmaps and I don't see any blocked seatmaps. For a while, 1A/K on the 744s were being blocked, but that seems to have stopped. My basic Emerald status seemingly allows me to book any open F seat.
May 26, 2011, 3:09 pm
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You need to remember that QF employs the use of rules-based seatmap generation (based on your booking code and FF status) as well as theoretical seating (someone of higher background value has been 'pre-approved' for certain seats that you are not eligible for as a result).