Originally Posted by
Keter 
Now, the technical part is that Amadeus has a command to select seats when seat map is not available (or when there is no contract rather with Amadeus to store seatmaps). It is very simple and called 'seat wish'.
Originally Posted by
ffay005
Has anyone asked an AY agent to try this? It sounds great, and I'd like to know if it works in practice.
I will have flights via Paris with AF ticketing on AY flights. AF is not able to give the seat map, and AY not either. AY chat was able to use 'seat wish' (aisle) for my connecting flight CDG-XXX, but not for YYY-HEL-CDG (or vice versa).