<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by UncleRobin:
Let me throw this in. When sitting in 21B, an exit row, the seat next to me, 21A, was not blocked on the seat map. Then I moved to 39G and 39E was blocked. Going back to 21B, 21A remained open on the seat map. Perhaps it is an exit row thing.
Uncle Robin</font>
I recently did not succeed at all in selecting a free exit row seat on aa.com (I'm Plat & was logged in), after doing it many times before. When I called AA, they told me that the check-in people would have to have a look at me before I could be sure to get the seat, but they (the phone people) would put in the request. The seat now shows as exit row on aa.com. (This is on ZRH-JFK, talking to AA phone people in Germany.)
Is this a new policy on transatlantic flights? Or ex-Switzerland or something?
VF