Ok I’m not sure if this is in the same category. My mom who has no status flew yesterday on flt 125 DFW to HKG. When I was booking her ticket back in January I think, I was able to get her an MCE seat 18H on the old seat map before there was a seat map for PE. Also the fare class of her ticket was O. So yesterday she informed me they changed her seat to 18C and said there was no seat B. I asked her to take a picture, and she did. Not a great picture but shows a little of the mini cabin of PE seats. Just to say 16 hours later she was happy about the nice seat. Also the base fare on that ticket was less than 600 dollars. I can post the picture if anyone wants.