What's the official position on this?

I booked 2 y flex tickets to gva for skiing in March 2014 and as expected no j availability.

I emailed and asked to be wait listed and ek have said no...this is not what happened to a friend of mine who managed to waitlist for an upgrade on a flight to JFK recently...

I also asked about the 2 guaranteed seats for golds, no response on that point yet...

Skywards gold really isn't worth much these days!