Originally Posted by
Globaliser
Now the situation is different. BA appears to have introduced a mechanism that sweeps existing reservations and cancels pre-allocations if the passengers on the booking are no longer entitled to those pre-allocations. In other words, what used to be true only of 1A and 1K in F is now the general rule.
Do we think that is run as a part of the pre-flight process (so all will appear well until just before the flight), or periodically across all flights (so they'll disappear at some TBD time)? And is it just seats-of-some-specialness that get shuffled?
I recently dropped to Bronze, but the assignments I'd already made on various segments are still there. In general they are groups of 4 arranged the way I want them on the starboard side towards the front of 'general population', but not exit rows, etc. Not a big drama if they get lost, but it will highlight the value of retaining at least Silver continuously rather than just happening to have it when booking.