When do blocked seats become open for selection?

[eminere]

Hi all,

Will be travelling in J on the SQ288 SYD-CBR-SIN service on 1 Nov and ExpertFlyer shows there are some blocked seats on the flight. On SQ do these seats become open for selection at some specific time before departure or at check-in? Or do they stay blocked for high-value/status passengers?

Thanks

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hi all,

Will be travelling in J on the SQ288 SYD-CBR-SIN service on 1 Nov and ExpertFlyer shows there are some blocked seats on the flight. On SQ do these seats become open for selection at some specific time before departure or at check-in? Or do they stay blocked for high-value/status passengers?

Thanks

From experience I know they are available around 48 hours before departure - which is the time I logged on an secured bulkhead J seats for some friends. It may be earlier than that but that just happened to be when i logged in to check seating.

bassinet seats seem to stay blocked until the airport.

 

[eminere]

From experience I know they are available around 48 hours before departure - which is the time I logged on an secured bulkhead J seats for some friends. It may be earlier than that but that just happened to be when i logged in to check seating.

bassinet seats seem to stay blocked until the airport.

Thanks! So I just happened to check the seat map at ~T-105 and 11A was open for selection. Fingers crossed the selection sticks. There’s something strange going on with the app - the Manage Booking summary page shows my seat as 11A but when I go into the seat map again it looks like I haven’t assigned a seat (but 11A is now greyed out while my previously selected seat is available). Is this normal?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thanks! So I just happened to check the seat map at ~T-105 and 11A was open for selection. Fingers crossed the selection sticks. There’s something strange going on with the app - the Manage Booking summary page shows my seat as 11A but when I go into the seat map again it looks like I haven’t assigned a seat (but 11A is now greyed out while my previously selected seat is available). Is this normal?

There you go! Looks like we have an even earlier data point (105 hours).

Can't help with the MMB and greyed out seat. Did you log out of SQ completely and log back in? Sometimes there can be a short lag with some booking systems to update.

 

[eminere]

Can't help with the MMB and greyed out seat. Did you log out of SQ completely and log back in? Sometimes there can be a short lag with some booking systems to update.

I’m not a KF member so have just been using Manage Booking the old-fashioned way with the booking reference. Have checked on different browsers and all seem to say I’m in 11A on the main page, so fingers crossed!