YOUR boarding pass holds plenty of information, including where you're going to be sat on the plane. But there's one number you definitely don't want to see next to your seat number - and that's zero. 2 There's one number you definitely don't want to see next to your seat number Credit: Getty Most passengers are given a seat number once they've checked into their flight online.
This number can be anything from 1A to 33C, and everything in between, with most passengers hoping to avoid the dreaded middle seat like the plague. Even though the middle seat might feel like the worst option, there's a seat number that's far more worrying. This is the number zero, which means a passenger hasn't been allocated a seat during check-in .
Travel Creator James Scoffin told Sun Travel: "They give you a seat allocation of 0 on your boarding pass , which means you have checked in, but not actually been given a seat." The seat number zero is often printed on boarding passes when a flight is very full and there are very few unassigned seats remaining. One person explained an airline's decision-making on Quora where they wrote: "It is easier to assign people a seat than to change a seat assignment.
People get very upset if they get moved. "Sometimes seats have to be reassigned very close to departure. For example, if a seat has recently become broken or unusable, adults with small children have not been seated together, an unsuitable passenger has been assigned an exit row, and similar.
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