Originally posted by Muhammad Asif:
Thanks for the response Nitin.
Still not understood ? Can you give a little bit more explanation?
Hi,
I'd like to share my thoughts on this.
I believe it would be more appropriate to link seats to an aircraft (equipment) than to a flight to provide better flexibility. An airline could upgrade its fleet but maintain the same flight number. For example, I have flight 5J803 that uses an Airbus A320 with a seating capacity of 180 seats. If I get a direct flight-seat relationship, I would have a seat number like 5J803-180. What if the airline switches to an Airbus A318 with a seating capacity of just 117 seats. Seat number 5J803-180 will obviously be invalid because there is no 180th seat on the new plane. Linking seats to a specific aircraft would ensure that your seat number would always be valid for a specific flight because it's dependency will be on the aircraft rather than the flight.
I hope this makes some sense.