Originally Posted by
PETER01
As I understand it AA Gold (OW Ruby) won't allow you to get early seat reservations on BA without paying for seat reservations to sit together. I think that is specifically a BAEC benefit and BA Bronze (OW Ruby) allows that at T-7 days but happy to be corrected as I'm not 100% sure.
It's a bit of a raw deal for them isn't it? When you consider AA will apparently give BA bronze / OW Ruby access to preferred seating in economy for free and main cabin extra at half the usual cost!