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Seating Groups on Aircraft

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Have you walked the length of an aircraft during a long flight and noticed different moods and vibes? Maybe it was the lighting in some regions or business travelers talking shop and everyone typing away. Depending on your destination, some areas seem more like a party or a movie theatre. Hopscotch Solutions takes the group seating concept another step with a group reseating API. Group Reseating Let's say you need to seat multiple groups of people together on a full flight. Would you handle families differently from business associates? Does one group have priority over the other? Would there be any bias in your methodology? Would you pick and choose who to help? In what order would you help them? We can reframe this as an "unavailable seat inventory" situation because it affects high load factor flights in need of a real-time reseating request system. This situation impacts more than families. Group reseating can result in departure delays. Reseating groups togeth...