Originally Posted by
vanmunchen
I recently booked seats LHR-MAD. Outbound is operated by IB inbound is on BA. I was surprised to see that seats were assigned immediately on booking. On My Booking I'm told the seats can't be changed unless I pay extra. Normally I get no allocation of seat at time of booking unless paying extra and subsequent bookings to other destinations have, as usual, not given me an assigned seat. Anyone know why the MAD seats have been assigned in advance? Just curious.
Some airlines do this. Air Berlin assigned us seats as soon as we booked. we could see the seat map but seat changes were chargeable. As I was BA Silver/Oneworld sapphire I called CS and has the seats changed for free.