Originally Posted by
yvr76
I'll have to side with AC on this one. What's to prevent any Elite/SE try to sell preferred seats to strangers in the open market. Once they're on a separate PNR, this is possible. And likely actual Altitude members would find preferred seats disappear very quickly.
I agree with you as well, however, immediate family traveling on same itinerary but different PNR should share preferred seat access.
ie spouse joins you on business trip
The one I hate is when you want to use AP miles for family tix and pay for yours to ensure status, they won't allow family access to preferred seats, however if all seats were booked with AP on single PNR - no problem.