Abstract: A method and system for pricing seats for a flight in which some nominated seats can be made available to passengers, upon request when making a flight reservation, for use as spare seats during the flight, the method comprising: predicting the number of regular seats required to seat the passengers expected on the flight, determining a regular seat price to charge for each of the regular seats, and determining a spare seat price to charge for each nominated seat that can be made available for use as a spare seat, the spare seat price being set as the price of regular seat price for the next available regular seat.

Abstract: A system and method for allocating aircraft seats for a flight reservation for a flight on an aircraft, wherein there is an inventory of seats for the flight, the system comprising a computer system configured to: receive a reservation request for one or more associated passengers for a flight on the aircraft, step 4009 receive a request for a couch-style seating space for those passengers, step 4011 said couch-style seating being nominally set aside as or configured or configurable as a multi-person seating space, allocating one or more of the associated passengers to the couch-style seating space for the flight, step 4012.