Belperpete
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Just to add to the great reservations debate.....
A week or two back, I joined a Virgin train at Euston. The electronic seat displays in the coach I boarded showed virtually all the seats as "Available if unoccupied". As more people arrived, it became obvious that a lot of people had reservations for seats that were labelled as "Available if unoccupied". Fortunately nobody claimed my seat, but if they had, I would have informed them that it was unoccupied when I arrived, and therefore available for me to sit in.
Do Virgin trains have some obscure meaning for "Available if unoccupied"? Do they really mean "Available if not reserved" - in which case, why not just say "Reserved"?
A week or two back, I joined a Virgin train at Euston. The electronic seat displays in the coach I boarded showed virtually all the seats as "Available if unoccupied". As more people arrived, it became obvious that a lot of people had reservations for seats that were labelled as "Available if unoccupied". Fortunately nobody claimed my seat, but if they had, I would have informed them that it was unoccupied when I arrived, and therefore available for me to sit in.
Do Virgin trains have some obscure meaning for "Available if unoccupied"? Do they really mean "Available if not reserved" - in which case, why not just say "Reserved"?