Originally Posted by
jrl22
call DL res, get the AS record locator, and use that to get to the seat map on alaskaair.com ... your SM number and status should already have populated into the AS system, so you should be able to select preferred seats
Thing is I already did that.
Originally Posted by pennyemporium
alaska air only recognizes gold and up on elite status. if you are silver, you are not worthy of recognition. i booked a code-share and selected a "premium" seat on the delta site, only to have the alaska air folks give me the cold shoulder. i was informed that the "premium" alaska seats are only for THEIR frequent flyers FIRST, and certainly not for silver medallions on delta. and i had MANY conversations with supervisors from both airlines trying to get even a non-preferred seat to "stick" when i chose it. eventually, the "back of the plane seat" disappeared (several times) until i was advised that i was remaindered to "to be assigned at the gate" seat status.
bottom line...silver is not a recognized status on alaska. and as the days go by, recognized less and less by delta....sigh
If that is true, I am a bit ticked off by that. Considering that the AS equivalent to Silver gets preferred seating on Delta and no where on the Delta site does it say GM+ for all benefits (just upgrades it mentions that). If this is really true, then I will probably stay clear of any AS-operated flights in the future.