quote:Originally posted by firsttimer
quote:Originally posted by xenole
So what happens, seat wise, if say the earlier flight gets cancelled due to a light load and merged with the later flight? Do people who have already selected a seat keep them and you then take what's left?
Do have a favourite seat and don't really like to be anywhere but on the port side next to a window - a lot eaier to look left than right and do love to watch the ocean and scenery

This is what happened to me (I was UC)when I was on a 'cancelled' VS27 which resulted in the 2 flights being merged. Everyone who was on the VS15 kept their seats, everyone on the VS27 were fitted into whatever seats were available, this meant those on the VS27 originally in UC were downgraded to PE (apart from me, I was extremely fortunate and had the 1 and only free seat on the VS15!), the VS27 PE passengers were downgraded to economy, there was plenty of room in economy on both flights so no economy passengers were bumped off. However, a number of UC and PE passengers did not want to be downgraded and travelled the following day. This also happened to me coming back (on the same trip!), again I was fortunate and kept an UC seat, the downgrades followed the same pattern but this time economy was full and it took a couple of days to clear the backlog.
so what happens if you do not wish to be downgraded and fly home the next day,do you get put up in a hotel!