Originally Posted by
odog1121
So I guess following up, some other airlines has an 85% capacity limit, so an 160 seater will take 136 passengers...etc.
The way Alaska does it is half the first class and empty middle seat, so on an 900, is there an actual hard limit for the amount of passengers you will take? 8+108=116? Like you said, if an family is sitting together, regardless of middle seats, does it allow the plane to be booked higher than 116?
Know what I'm saying? If all the revenue passengers and higher priority non revs gets to the 116 "limit", can I exceed that limit if they manually override it to let me sit in a middle seat with my family? Or will the system lock it out at 116 passengers as a defacto limit because of the requirement for middle seat ro be empty?
I can't say for absolutely sure. But Alaska's registered commuters have to get on and they're allowed in the middle seat. So there is probably a way for the computer to do it. I'd hope the gate agents use common sense for this.