Originally Posted by
GadgetGal
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.
Yes but this was a BA booking and they never usually allocate seats immediately - except with a extra payment. Is it because the outbound flight was operated by IB?