Originally Posted by
LeisureFirst
I agrre about the seatmap. I just don't find the availability tool very useful, especially with BA, for reasons I mentioned.
Allthough even the seatmap now it can't cope any more with the myriad of possibilities. Poor old EF has three categories: Available, Occupied and Blocked. (It doesn't use "Premium" for BA). And yet it has to cope with:
- Available only to Golds
- Available to Golds for free and others for a hefty fee.
- Available to Golds and Silvers for free but not available to others even if they pay (some but not all UD seats; also see below)
- Available to Golds and Silvers for free and others for a fee (some CW seats)
- Blocked for babies
- etc.
If you put your BA or partner Frequent Flyer information on the Preferences tab of the My Account page, your seat map will be customized to your status level as we send in your frequent flyer number in with the seat map request.
Also we will be switching to a new seat map source for BA and other airlines in about a week that should have more detail for certain seat maps, but in all cases it's not about what we can or can't show, it's about what the airline actually tells us.
Also, can you email us a specific "blocked for babies" example and tell us if entering your FF # changes that in any way? (
[email protected]) Thanks.