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Originally Posted by PHXFlyer
Wrong again, dude. On DL if your boarding pass prints out with "seat request" it means you have no assigned seat and that all available seats have been assigned. In other words, the flight is overbooked/oversold.
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What the hell is your problem, DUDE? Are you going to attack EVERY thing I post. You sir have never worked for Delta. I DON'T care if you fly "about" 6 round trips a year on them, you obviously have NO clue how the ticketing works. I will add to my previous statement that just because you buy a ticket from a low-cost website does not necessarily mean you will not have a seat, but since they are the ones that sell the super cheap tickets most problems like this stem from such tickets. I want to explain to you how the system ACTUALLY works.
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Originally Posted by PhxFlyer
On DL if your boarding pass prints out with "seat request" it means you have no assigned seat...
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True. If your ticket says "seat request" you indeed do not YET have an assigned seat.
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Originally Posted by PHXFlyer
...and that all available seats have been assigned. In other words, the flight is overbooked/oversold.
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Not true. When your ticket says "seat request" it is because all the seats in the class of service that you purchased that are available for a passenger to pick for themselves are assigned, not all the seats on the airplane. So, with that said, let's do some math as an example. Flight 123 from PHX to ATL is an MD-88 with a capacity of 14 FC seats and 128 YC seats. All 128 YC seats have been bought and assigned. 10 more people have purchased YC seats but none have been assigned seats. Which technically makes coach "oversold." Only 2 people have purchased FC seats, which leaves 12 open. Which means that the flight as a whole is not oversold now, it has a positive 2 seats. You know as well as I do that 12 medallion members will be moved from YC to FC, which will free up their 12 seats in the back. Now, with that said, the 10 people who did not have seats originally will now be given the open seats in coach, and the flight actually goes out with 2 empty seats. Hope all that makes sense. If it doesn't, I'm sure you'll let me know.