Originally Posted by
Ancien Maestro
I call every airline as well.. often seat selections are chosen by calling the airline whose segment you're flying.. directly, to ensure that your seat selection is properly registered and selected.
That's what I use to do. It works perfectly with Swiss, Thai, Air France and all but Lufthansa. LH says it must keep half of its seats in F available for attribution at check-in
when the flight is full, which is not an explanation. Which half I asked? They could not tell. I asked if they were especially refusing preselection of award seats, their answer was it had nothing to do with the seat being an award or not. Maybe I'm missing something?