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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 12:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Royce
Originally Posted by guv1976
If you have status with AA, you can add your AAdvantage number to the Avios booking after the fact, and then select preferred seats free of charge. Otherwise, you'll be limited to whatever "free" seats AA offers on the seat map.
As the OP is AA Gold, only until the end of the year I think (the promotional preferred / MCE seats period, after that it'll be Plat / EXP / OWS / OWE)

http://www.aa.com/i18n/urls/seats.js...RL&title=seats

*AAdvantage Executive Platinum, AAdvantage Platinum and active U.S. Military customers, as well as AAirpass® and oneworld elite customers and Alaska Airlines MVP® , MVP® Gold and MVP Gold® 75K customers and up to 8 traveling companions on the same reservation. AAdvantage Gold customers will have complimentary access through December 2013.
OK. (I'm not able to see the OP's profile with AA status from my BlackBerry.) But since the OP is planning to travel "next month," there should be no problem selecting better seats, even as a lowly "Gold."
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