Originally Posted by
sakari1707
Booked yesterday an BA Avios+cash reward ticket for a AY flight HELBKK in C for November and sure enough I was not given a chance to choose my seat, but instead was automatically allocated seat 3A on this A330 new version - meaning it is a seatpair instead of a solo seat.
Could not change it on AY MMB - gives that error message. Called AY reservations today (answered within seconds), the lady said she could NOT change the seat beacause of it being a BA tkt, she would need to contact another department and would change the seat or call me. Within 30 mins it was changed to my preferred seat 2L.
But very strange indeed all these seating problems! And frustrating.
I just booked AY for BA Avios reward (points only) in C for KIX-HEL-WAW (A340 + E190) in December and my seats were not allocated. Logged in with my PNR on Finnair's site and had no problems allocating my preferred seats for both sectors. Actually there were only 4 seats blocked on KIX-HEL and everything was open for HEL-WAW. Then again, it's another 4 months before my trip.
But to sum it up, had no problems with prearrangement and I am actually surprised you were allocated a seat when booking through BA. I could never do that when booking a reward for carriers other than BA on their site.