All dependent on the passenger! Those with lifetime silver get trumped by someone who’s been a platinum for just a few years.Fair? Depends who you ask.Should pax who have their travel paid by work be able to invoke the platinum seat release compared to someone who slogs it out the hard way?
I don’t mind batch releases. I’d much prefer a set number of seats on each flight, and no queue jumping. VA doesn’t have it and it doesn’t seem to create any problems.