Aug 20, 2016, 12:22 pm
Last edit by: Prospero
Contents
Introduction and Overview
Paid Seating and pricing schedules
Twin seats and exit row seats
Refunds
Additional needs customers and those travelling with infants
Group bookings
747 upper deck seats
Sources and further information
www.speedbirdclub.com
www.ba.com/seating
Theoretical Seating: Blocked seats and status master thread
Introduction and Overview
Paid Seating and pricing schedules
Twin seats and exit row seats
Refunds
Additional needs customers and those travelling with infants
Group bookings
747 upper deck seats
Sources and further information
www.speedbirdclub.com
www.ba.com/seating
Theoretical Seating: Blocked seats and status master thread
BA Seating Policy Guide
Sep 20, 2017, 4:14 pm
#347
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Welcome to flyertalk and the BA forum Kenco222!^
No , you will not have to pay ( unless you want an exit row seat in WT or WT+ IIRC) What cabin are you travelling in?. If you log into your BAEC account and go to Manage my booking you will be able to select seats.
Regards
TBS
Sep 20, 2017, 4:25 pm
#348
Join Date: Sep 2017
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Hi,
Welcome to flyertalk and the BA forum Kenco222!^
No , you will not have to pay ( unless you want an exit row seat in WT or WT+ IIRC) What cabin are you travelling in?. If you log into your BAEC account and go to Manage my booking you will be able to select seats.
Regards
TBS
Welcome to flyertalk and the BA forum Kenco222!^
No , you will not have to pay ( unless you want an exit row seat in WT or WT+ IIRC) What cabin are you travelling in?. If you log into your BAEC account and go to Manage my booking you will be able to select seats.
Regards
TBS
Trouble is all the seat selections in manage my booking have costs associated with them, I don't want to confirm the seats and get charged.
Sep 20, 2017, 5:12 pm
#349
Join Date: Sep 2017
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I'm a donut, just realised i am only at Blue tier status, not silver.
I'm sure when i booked the DUB-GAT-MCO return for the 4 of us that we would get silver memebrship, but just looning at the thread fro 2014 on the DIBB it mentions straight to Bronze, not silver.
I'll call BA tomorrow & see what they say.
Thanks for you reply though...
Sep 21, 2017, 2:27 am
#350
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I may have misunderstood what you mean here, but just in case: you don't get higher-tier membership just for booking. You only get tier promotion after you fly the relevant flights.
Sep 21, 2017, 7:19 pm
#351
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Sep 22, 2017, 1:06 am
#352
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those tier points will have expired at the end of you tier point collection year. You would have kept the status till 2 months after the end of the next collection year and then dropped back to blue unless you gained enough tier points that year to maintain that status level
So tier points acquired in 2013 would expire in 2014. Sometime 2015 or early 2016 (depending when your tier point collection year ended) you would have dropped back to blue.
To be bronze or silver now you would have had to have been flying enough to collect the tier points much more recently
So tier points acquired in 2013 would expire in 2014. Sometime 2015 or early 2016 (depending when your tier point collection year ended) you would have dropped back to blue.
To be bronze or silver now you would have had to have been flying enough to collect the tier points much more recently
Sep 22, 2017, 9:44 am
#353
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those tier points will have expired at the end of you tier point collection year. You would have kept the status till 2 months after the end of the next collection year and then dropped back to blue unless you gained enough tier points that year to maintain that status level
So tier points acquired in 2013 would expire in 2014. Sometime 2015 or early 2016 (depending when your tier point collection year ended) you would have dropped back to blue.
To be bronze or silver now you would have had to have been flying enough to collect the tier points much more recently
So tier points acquired in 2013 would expire in 2014. Sometime 2015 or early 2016 (depending when your tier point collection year ended) you would have dropped back to blue.
To be bronze or silver now you would have had to have been flying enough to collect the tier points much more recently
Paying for seats it is then
Sep 27, 2017, 11:11 am
#354
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Slightly stupid question perhaps, but at T-23 and online check is open, I've been allocated a middle (Y) seat on 787-9 at the back, next to the toilets. The other options offered are four other middle seats scattered around.
Does this mean the flight is therefore only got 4 seats free? Or possibly more? What options do I have, if any, to avoid 23 hours of sitting in the middle of two fatties?
Does this mean the flight is therefore only got 4 seats free? Or possibly more? What options do I have, if any, to avoid 23 hours of sitting in the middle of two fatties?
Nov 11, 2017, 8:45 am
#355
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Is there a specific thread or section here on seating policy children? A colleague of mine has just posted this on Facebook (and I'm interested to know how this would compare with BA):
"Shocking that #TUIUK (formerly Thomson) has allocated my 3YR OLD niece a seat ON HER OWN for our return 8hr flight. Check-in desk for outbound said they can’t change it & we’d have to ask on way back! So have to start holiday with that anxiety hanging over us! Utterly appalling #poorservice"
"Shocking that #TUIUK (formerly Thomson) has allocated my 3YR OLD niece a seat ON HER OWN for our return 8hr flight. Check-in desk for outbound said they can’t change it & we’d have to ask on way back! So have to start holiday with that anxiety hanging over us! Utterly appalling #poorservice"
Nov 14, 2017, 11:37 pm
#356
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Just wondering why as a Gold I am not able to reserve 1A and 1K in first on an upcoming flight to Nairobi.
I can book 2A and 2K but not the front row even though they are shown as available on MMB.
Any ideas?
I can book 2A and 2K but not the front row even though they are shown as available on MMB.
Any ideas?
Nov 15, 2017, 4:39 am
#357
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Is that AND or OR? If it is one passenger then either should be available to you unless already allocated. If two passengers then you both need to be Gold until about 72-48 hours before departure.
Nov 15, 2017, 11:10 pm
#358
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Ah ok! Thanks CWS. It is indeed AND, and there is indeed one Gold and one silver on the booking.
Nov 30, 2017, 5:56 am
#359
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OWS here - we have a booking with BA and somehow the first BA leg BA charges for reserving seats! The itinerary is CPH-LHR-LAX-LHR-CPH and BA got the seats for us for the last leg on BA (the long hauls are AA flights marketed by BA and we got seats already).
I tried to select seats for CPH-LHR and BA asks for payment - could someone help? Not that it's important but it's not supposed to be like this.
TIA!
I tried to select seats for CPH-LHR and BA asks for payment - could someone help? Not that it's important but it's not supposed to be like this.
TIA!
Nov 30, 2017, 6:28 am
#360
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If you were having trouble doing it yourself for free on that sector, then one possible cause is that the system has not recognised your Sapphire status for some reason. That can sometimes get fixed if you remove your frequent flyer number from the booking altogether, and then reinsert it. But knowing what happened on the last sector would help.
Also, do you know what booking classes you're booked into on each flight? You should be able to get that from BA's MMB, if you click on the link that says "More flight information".
