Seat selection unavailable on this flight

[JoshuaL1997]

Hello,

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, I have a return trip to Manila coming up which I booked with points in business class. When i booked my flight I selected seats but have just checked again and now it seems seat booking is unavailable for both flights and only will be available again on check in.

I'm curious if this means I won't get access to "reserved seats" in row 1 and 2, 80 hours before departure which is what i was hoping for.

Anyone else experienced this?

 

[markis10]

Seat selection becoming unavailable means the aircraft is close to being 100% sold, from memory it becomes unavailable at 90 or 95%

 

[SYD]

Seat selection becoming unavailable means the aircraft is close to being 100% sold, from memory it becomes unavailable at 90 or 95%

Could also just be that the number of “available” seats based on PAX FF status is less than the travelling party size. Until T-80 (or even closer to T-25) you might just see the “Window or Aisle” option.

Even if you already have assigned seats, going in to view or change you can get the “Window/Aisle” thing if there aren’t enough “available” seats to switch to.

Something Expert Flyer can be useful to check how many seats are actually occupied vs blocked.

A flight can be quite lightly sold but someone with low or zero status might still get this restricted seat selection until closer to departure.

 

[JoshuaL1997]

Could also just be that the number of “available” seats based on PAX FF status is less than the travelling party size. Until T-80 (or even closer to T-25) you might just see the “Window or Aisle” option.

Even if you already have assigned seats, going in to view or change you can get the “Window/Aisle” thing if there aren’t enough “available” seats to switch to.

Something Expert Flyer can be useful to check how many seats are actually occupied vs blocked.

A flight can be quite lightly sold but someone with low or zero status might still get this restricted seat selection until closer to departure.

Thank you this is really great info! Flight is only three weeks away so it might very well be practically full in J.

 

[brett-au]

Most likely QF are going to swap the 332 for a 333. Or possibly a different config 332.

 

[SYD]

Thank you this is really great info! Flight is only three weeks away so it might very well be practically full in J.

If you let us know the flight/date, we can post the seat map from EF (or you can easily do it yourself with a free login).

 

[JoshuaL1997]

If you let us know the flight/date, we can post the seat map from EF (or you can easily do it yourself with a free login).

30.11.24 QF97 BNE-MNL
17.12.24 QF20 MNL-SYD

 

[SYD]

30.11.24 QF97 BNE-MNL
17.12.24 QF20 MNL-SYD

Yeah, both pretty full. These are a OWE view of the flights. Most of the “empty” and blocked seats ought to open up at T-80.

QF97



QF20

 

[JoshuaL1997]

Yeah, both pretty full. These are a OWE view of the flights. Most of the “empty” and blocked seats ought to open up at T-80.

QF97

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QF20
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Oh amazing thank you! Just created an account for Expert Flyer looks like a really handy tool. I'm currently in 4k for QF97 which is fine but in 6k for QF20 closer to the isle so I'm hoping 2A will be free at T-80.

Thanks again for your help!

 

[SYD]

Oh amazing thank you! Just created an account for Expert Flyer looks like a really handy tool. I'm currently in 4k for QF97 which is fine but in 6k for QF20 closer to the isle so I'm hoping 2A will be free at T-80.

Thanks again for your help!

I might be wrong, but pretty sure even A/K seats are all proper “window” seats.

 

[markis10]

Yeah, both pretty full. These are a OWE view of the flights. Most of the “empty” and blocked seats ought to open up at T-80.

QF97

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QF20
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If the flight is close to full seat selection is unlikely to open up until the flight is handed over to airport control in Altea, if it does bonus, however Altea normally holds in reserve seats for airport control to assign on a need basis/PCV status.

 

[SYD]

If the flight is close to full seat selection is unlikely to open up until the flight is handed over to airport control in Altea, if it does bonus, however Altea normally holds in reserve seats for airport control to assign on a need basis/PCV status.

That’s certainly true if a flight is oversold - fortunately not super common here (and usually not on QFi J anyway).

Yes, a zero/low status PAX may still be constrained up until T-25 or less.

I saw PCV (even as a WP) at play recently and discussed here.

Thread 'Same status different seat selection availability'

Oct 12, 2024

Wasn’t sure if this is a question under T-80 or Shadows but possibly warrants a seperate thread (if not already asked before?).

Two of us on seperate tickets flying SYD-MEL whY (return). Bookings are not linked AFAIK but we can see quite different seat availability within T-80 (I think it’s much the same before T-80 and not aware of this on QFi).

Both of us WP/LTG/PC/GT and flying associated to my QBR account. I’ve been continuous WP longer, attained LTG several years earlier.

Flying down to MEL we had adjacent aisle seats (as usual), EF was showing our middle seats blocked (shadow?)...

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