I have been running into some problems in regards to seat requests on Virgin Australia flights.

I have several bookings made through the Air NZ website that are operated by Virgin flights and I have tried calling Virgin to request premium seating, (As I am GE) even though Virgin picks up my status as Partner Platinum they will only give me row 7.

Does anyone know why Virgin does this or if there is away around it so I can pre request premium seating (rows 3 or 4)?

Thanks!