Blocked seats virgin

[toots82]

Hi all

So I was having a nosy on expert flyer yesterday and it suggests that some seats on our virgin flight are blocked rather than booked by customers. A few of these are bulkheads where skycots could go so totally understandable. Also classed as blocked are the front row of econ in the bubble. Is this likely? Does anyone know if/when these are likely to become bookable and also if there are age restrictions on those bubble seats?
We fly from gla on 27th Sept this year.
Thank you

[amandajane10]

Originally Posted by toots82

Hi all

So I was having a nosy on expert flyer yesterday and it suggests that some seats on our virgin flight are blocked rather than booked by customers. A few of these are bulkheads where skycots could go so totally understandable. Also classed as blocked are the front row of econ in the bubble. Is this likely? Does anyone know if/when these are likely to become bookable and also if there are age restrictions on those bubble seats?
We fly from gla on 27th Sept this year.
Thank you

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I dont think you can book bulkhead till just before as they keep them free for people with babies. We have just flown with Virgin and the bulkhead were only confirmed at check in.

[toots82]

Originally Posted by amandajane10

I dont think you can book bulkhead till just before as they keep them free for people with babies. We have just flown with Virgin and the bulkhead were only confirmed at check in.

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I thought that for those ones. Totally fair enough. We flew when we was 12 weeks and had a skycot. It made a huge diff. She's 11 now so not sure she would qualify... or fit LOL.

I'm curious about the front row bubble ones. I just assumed they would have been purchased by dibbers lol

[Toffee Lady]

hi we were able to book the front row in the bubble when we went 2 years ago... don't know if it's changed since then.

[toots82]

Originally Posted by Toffee Lady

hi we were able to book the front row in the bubble when we went 2 years ago... don't know if it's changed since then.

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Thank you. I did find it strange.

[Kraken]

The seats that normally show as blocked on Expertflyer are the pay-extra ones, so extra legroom rows & the exit rows. As above, the bulkhead rows are also blocked off for airport allocation so they can be given to passengers with babies for the skycot. Row 97 & 98 always show as blocked as these are crew seats that only be allocated to certain Virgin employees.

On particularly low-load flights, e.g. a an outbound flight on the last Saturday of Feb half term when demand will be low going out, but the flight has to go as the inbound will be rammed full, they may block additional seats die to load/weight balance of the aircraft. This avoids letting people select the seats then get disappointed when they have been moved due to load/weight balance.