Travelling from CDG to CBR on Emirates, I had carefully selected my seats (and paid for extra legroom) on the long haul sectors. Today, I went to EK's website for OLCI on my return journey CBR-BNE-DXB-CDG which departs in 42 hours. However, because the first segment is a Qantas operated code share, it seems to be not possible and I was referred to the Qantas web site with a new record locator.

Indeed, Qantas finds the travel info but check-in is only available 24 hours before departure. Fine, but very worrysome is the fact that the seat assignments Qantas shows on the EK flights are not those I had selected, and much less convenient (middle seats). A seat change is possible but there are no decent seats available through QF's interface.

Going back to the Emirates web page to cross-check the trip with the EK record locator, the seat assignments are indeed those that I had paid for. Besides, the seats marked as available are very different from those that are open on Qantas's website. So it seems that this is not an aircraft change (or what else) issue, but just that the seat info has not been transmitted to QF with the new record locator.

How should I handle the situation at check-in (which can only done online through QF's interface) in order to seat where I want ? Should I postpone check-in until I meet a human at the airport ?