Airport Control

Can someone kindly tell me what.. "missing rows are blocked by VS for airport control" means.... I have just changed date of travel to JFK (planned 30/6 ..rescheduled to 29th), and there seems to be quite a number of "missing" seats....?|

Thanks

I think they are seats assigned at check in either online or at the airport. Usually the front rows of the cabin and bulkhead rows

Thanks for reply ... I think I'll check "my online booking" maybe 2-3 days before travel date to see whether any missing seats magically appear....cheers!

If they have been blocked for airport control ie allocation at the airport then I would have thought they would not be available at olci otherwise how could they be allocated at the airport?

a good point tonty.
however some of these seats do seem to become available at OLCI and some do stay blocked for the airport staff.

[mitchja]

The first 8 or so rows in economy on the VS 346's are always blocked until OLCI opens.

No idea why this is but it's always been like this.

I checked out the flight on EF ...Y, PE showing as full ...UC ...24 available, but 28 seats were missing? I entered a dummy booking, and seats were available in PE, although not many. I'll just have to wait and see what's occurring at check-in.

Having switched dates (nervous about airport disruption 30th), methinks I'm in for a very busy flight

The first 8 or so rows in economy on the VS 346's are always blocked until OLCI opens.

No idea why this is but it's always been like this.

Weight balancing for the front and back ends of the a/c?

[honey lamb]

The first 8 or so rows in economy on the VS 346's are always blocked until OLCI opens.

No idea why this is but it's always been like this.

Weight balancing for the front and back ends of the a/c?

Probably - in the same way that Ryanair blocks off the front rows when there isn't a full load on board