I wondered when this thread was going to spring to life again. I imagine there might be a few more posts in the near future particularly for WP & SG's.
Perhaps you are right - scored my first ever op-up on QF456 MEL-SYD today
Bit of a weird one too, as the flight was nowhere near full - 737 with 5 spare seats in J and plenty of spare seats in Y (20% of cabin?). Right before takeoff ExpertFlyer was showing:
Code:
J5 C5 D5 I4 U0 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V0 S0 N0 Q0 O0 G0 X0 E8
So, not sure why I scored the op-up... something was definitely screwy with the booking right from the start though, which I'll explain as I'm curious if anyone can shed some light on what might've happened:
Initial booking was a Y Classic Award made a couple of weeks ago. Immediately after booking I tried to select a seat online, but was only shown the back half of the plane as being available - what'd you see with no status. Called up the helpdesk, who told me the "note on my booking" to signify I was WP was missing, which he fixed. Also put me in 13A (exit row) at the same time. After that point "Manage Booking" on the QF website showed me as being in 13A, but I couldn't change the seat - clicking "Select Seat" gave an error about not being able to select a seat online, and just offered a window/aisle preference (which I cancelled out of, leaving myself in 13A).
Then this morning rolled around and I thought I'd check the seat map on EF. It looked like 4K was available so I rang the helpdesk again to ask them to move me there, to be told they couldn't do it because it was less than T-24 and was also given the suggestion of trying to check-in online and change my seat at the same time. So, I dutifully tried checking in online and this time I
could select a seat - except the "current seat" was listed as 3D despite the fact it was showing me the seatmap for the Y cabin.
Went back to double-check - "Manage Booking" still showed Economy & 13A, Online Checkin seat selection page showed current seat as 3D but displayed the Y seatmap. Cancelled out again and called the helpdesk
again to try and clarify what was going on (I'm a curious sort). The CSR told me the segment looked like it was in Y to him but "maybe they had made a change at the airport" (bear in mind it was still about 8 hours before the flight). Gave up trying to figure it out at this point - just went to the airport and checked in at the service desk, where they handed me a J BP seated in 3D. No mention of being given an op-up at any point - not on the phone, and not by the person who checked me in.
Weird, huh? Any ideas on what happened (so I can try to make it happen again ;-))?
