I'm just curious as to how the whole pre requesting of seats works.
It seems like a complete lottery whether you actually get the seats you have chosen - for our flight on VS 75, 28th April, I've chosen 62/63 h and k for 4 adults, failing that I'd prefer a row of 4 in the little front sub-cabin.
As I understand it, those seats don't come available till physical checkin opens, so we'd have to be at MAN at 6am to stand a chance of them (unless they'd already been allocated), am I right so far?
I've read various things on other forums, even to the point of someone stating categorically that if you do olci exactly 24 hours before, you can effectively 'steal' someone elses chosen seats!
I don't see how that would be possible? Surely the whole of economy doesn't miraculously 'open up' for first come first served?[V]
people have also told me that even when they've done olci for the return flight AND been at downtown disney checkin on opening - they have still lost their chosen seats. Am I right in assuming that the flight would have to be full (with families) for that to happen?
Are there any 'tricks' for keeping your chosen seats or getting good ones?
I'm remembering my last VS flight to/from miami, we'd booked quite late and the seats I'd requested weren't very good, we got to heathrow before check in opened and they still wouldn't entertain changing our seats, the outbound wasn't too bad, although our party of 3 was in a middle row with a stranger sat next to us, the return was horrible - stuck right by the galley so the food choices ran out and it was very noisy.
I'm rambling now so if you've got this far thank you.[:I]
It seems like a complete lottery whether you actually get the seats you have chosen - for our flight on VS 75, 28th April, I've chosen 62/63 h and k for 4 adults, failing that I'd prefer a row of 4 in the little front sub-cabin.
As I understand it, those seats don't come available till physical checkin opens, so we'd have to be at MAN at 6am to stand a chance of them (unless they'd already been allocated), am I right so far?
I've read various things on other forums, even to the point of someone stating categorically that if you do olci exactly 24 hours before, you can effectively 'steal' someone elses chosen seats!
I don't see how that would be possible? Surely the whole of economy doesn't miraculously 'open up' for first come first served?[V]
people have also told me that even when they've done olci for the return flight AND been at downtown disney checkin on opening - they have still lost their chosen seats. Am I right in assuming that the flight would have to be full (with families) for that to happen?
Are there any 'tricks' for keeping your chosen seats or getting good ones?
I'm remembering my last VS flight to/from miami, we'd booked quite late and the seats I'd requested weren't very good, we got to heathrow before check in opened and they still wouldn't entertain changing our seats, the outbound wasn't too bad, although our party of 3 was in a middle row with a stranger sat next to us, the return was horrible - stuck right by the galley so the food choices ran out and it was very noisy.
I'm rambling now so if you've got this far thank you.[:I]
