S7 Airlines has started to seat passengers from the same reservation. This is stated in aviation telegram channels with reference to passenger reviews. According to their version, this can happen for those tourists who purchased tickets at the basic rate. The authors suggest that the carrier could have followed the path of Pobeda and Ural Airlines in order to try to stimulate demand for a paid seat selection service.
It is worth noting that in support of their words, the sources cite only one screenshot of online check-in for a flight operated on an Embraer 170 aircraft, where a fair number of seats were already occupied at that time. It should not be excluded that by this time there were simply no other options for free passenger seating on a small-capacity aircraft.
Tourists discussing the news do not believe that such a practice can be widespread. Some of them cite the example of personal airline flights recently, where there was no question of any seating.
According to all the same telegram channels, in S7 this screenshot is called a bug. And they claim that there are no algorithms for seating passengers. Editorial Office TourDom.ru I asked the carrier for an official comment.
Earlier TourDom.ru He wrote that travel agents are unhappy that parents and young children are given seats in different rows on charters.
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