I had one of them 3 weeks ago with bags in the emergency exit.
She moved though when instructed.
Turns out she was one of the company owners daughters.
Last week i recieved an email from him with a one liner and no signature.
"Throw the bitch off next time"
Pilt that made me laugh an organised plan with pax seating. Your can be assured that level of premeditated planning is far out reach for most if not all airlines. The pre allocated goes in then its random with whats left. It has been suggested that they block a section of statisically low requested seats for familys but it falls on deaf ears in commercial.
When the high request seats are gone most will then try and get two seats in the same row to try and get a whole row to themselves in the chance the flight isn't full and there are empty seats.
So you end up with blocks of groups then a chess board of taken seats in the cabin leaving singles free in most rows.
They don't want to lock booking groups together for some reason which would solve the problem.
Last edited by mad_jock; 28th Jul 2014 at 11:15.