> So this means that if the plane is empty they'll now forbid passengers from using 3 seats and ask them to pay instead?

I was wondering what exactly they were offering, and to my surprise this what I would do after the seating process and the snacks were handed out. Typically the lights would be low and people moving about made it easier to ID.

I was asked not to do that since in about 15+ international long haul flights, with various airliners but other than that I thought it just made more sense if there were 2-3 of us on a single row while there unused rows in the back.