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This thread has been very helpful so thanks to everyone who has been asking questions and providing insight.

I just booked FCO-EWR for my wife and me on August 25 (redemption). 2 seats in GF showed as available in the search results seat map, but neither were available for selection while going through the purchase process.

After purchasing the tickets, when I went to try to change seats on the website, the two GF seats showed up as available...for $599 each. Somewhat interestingly, the same option doesn't show up on the mobile app - the GF seats are all greyed out.

I'm a lowly Silver so I wasn't expecting to be able to select those seats, but I hadn't seen anyone mention the possibility of paying to move up to GF so maybe this is new?