Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Only Golds can prebook those seats in advance, so unless the Henleys are all Golds then at this stage they can't allocate those seats to you.
This may sound either pedantic or sarcastic, but surely only those who are actually in the seats would need to be gold, or does BA really have a rule that says that the entire party must be gold before a front-row seat can be allocated?