I'm flying CE to Marseille with my parents in August. Due to me not knowing if I could make it initially, I am in a seperate booking to the parents.

I'm now booked as well, and of course being a silver I can reserve my seats. Problem is, parents can't, and I can't reserve the seats for them, as they're on a seperate booking.

I was wondering if it's possible somehow for the bookings to be merged, so that BA view us as a single travelling party?

I tried the Twitter route but they basically refused to be of any assistance at all. Even after I asked them how I could make sure I was sitting with my parents, they just said I can reserve seats at OLCI but they can't promise availability of 3 seats together as we're in seperate bookings.

I know that's just the way it is, but what if, for example, my parents were nervous flyers and didn't want to fly without me? And not meaning to sound DYKWIA here, but we've paid for 3 Club Europe tickets and I'm a silver - it seems rather pants that BA won't help out in making sure we get seats together?

Seat reservations are £22 per person per journey, which makes a total of £88 to reserve seats for my parents... seems a bit of an unfair penalty simply for having 2 booking refs...

Any advice as to whether there's anything I can do would be much appreciated.