Things seem to be back to normal at AI. I just flew ORD-DEL. I had selected an aisle seat towards the front of the plane on AI's website well ahead of time. At the check-in counter, I was told that now I had 44K for some inexplicable reason.

Same thing happened for the next connecting DEL-CCU flight. I had chosen 6F but got 27F instead. At the transfer desk at DEL, a family with small children all got separate seats, although the father clearly had OLCI BPs showing seats together. The counter staff just said that there was nothing she could do. What a mess!!