Originally Posted by
zpaul
AA definately has an official concept of "a more valuable" seat. In my instance (upthread - full fare Y and all other legs in paid J and next to a POS on my flight) I was told at the time of reservation, check-in and in the AC that I had a "preferred" economy seat (12A) for my flight SCL-DFW.
Agreed. Plus, AA also charges non elites a premium if they want to sit in some seats. This isn' one of those things were there is an equipement change and the computer places me in another seat. In this case it would be the FA or GA telling me to move to a "less preferred" seat because the POS needs to also use my seat, when the policy says the POS is supposed to book 2 seats on the next available flight. That is, they have to book 2 together, not wait until they are on the plane and then offer to pay for the one I have selected, or have an FA/GA just give it to them for free.