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Old Sep 11, 2017, 12:38 pm
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ba_cityflyer
 
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Unhappy BA Gold line refuse to offload me for "security reasons"?

Odd interaction with the gold line this evening.

I have a BA flight tomorrow. Now normally I don't retrieve my boarding pass at OLCI, however for some reason I did. And so, sod's law, after doing so I received an Expertflyer notification that a better seat had opened up.

In the past, I have phoned BA, they have offloaded me, so that I can OLCI again and choose a different seat.

Not possible, sir. "Policy". "Security reasons".

Patently, a BA phone agents job will be offloading passengers from flights day-in-day-out, from flexible tickets, seat changes, etc.

Anyone able to explain the possible "security" concern? Or just yet another asinine anti-customer BA policy?
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