Originally Posted by lionelhutz

Later in the year, my family and I are doing a Hong Kong/Singapore trip. I am travelling to HK early, and my wife and kids are following a week later. Then for the rest of the itinerary we are travelling together. So we'll be on separate bookings but travelling together for all but the first flight.

All our bookings will be in economy but they'll probably be on a saver fare, which require payment of a fee to reserve seats. I have MPO Gold, which means if we were on the same booking, I could reserve everyone's seats for free.

So my question is, if I call and tell Cathay that we are travelling together on those flights, point out that I am MPO Gold, and ask nicely, will I be allowed to reserve seats for everyone together for free? I assume since we are on separate bookings, they won't allow that? Do they ever bend the rules on this?