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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 1:31 am
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NASATimp
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Originally Posted by go4bal
I called the AA PLT desk back again. I gave them the ticket number and they found my reservation. Since it is an Iberia ticket, AA stated that they are not able to assist me further with my ticket (i.e. seating, etc.) and that Iberia directly has to assist me further.
Well, that's remarkably unhelpful. I'll bet there's no real reason they couldn't, for the inverse of the reason that Iberia doesn't have the online seat selection option for their codeshares on AA: American has ultimate control over the AA metal. Any "selection" one does through IB is ultimately just a request from IB to AA anyway. Why not allow the request directly, for a good AA customer?
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