Display team departs to occupy seats at the back? (3,6)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

D (departs) in (to occupy) REAR ROWS (seats at the back?) It would have helped if I’d heard of the Red Arrows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Arrows). For awhile I thought we might have something like ROW Y or even ROW Z for “seats at the back”.