Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Remember that with new as with old service, you can still pre order your main on all ex-London flights and that guarantees that you will get your first choice. If not, you unfortunately always run a risk of it not being available unless you have very high frequent flyer elite status.
Good point, I had planned to mention that in my original post but clearly didn’t.
We had opted not to pre order, as we couldn’t decide before hand what we wanted. My wife has silver status, so we were aware that she might not get her first choice.