Originally Posted by
senatorbrown
This seems right. AA must still abide by the OW rules, so our "Classic" R Fares should still be eligible for AA. But for those of us that booked prior to the R policies were rolled out this month - it is my understanding that if you booked before you are still eligible for Al Mourjan in Doha; but if you change your ticket at all, you are no longer eligible for that or seat assignments which seems really messed up. Any additional data points on this? Anyone been successful switching their flights to 2021 and also having the agent allowing a seat change? I am in a party of 3 adults and we're gunning for those quad seats.
Not to start a class war, but the Q-suites are a limited commodity and I don't fault QR for doing what they can to dole them out to passengers in 'class' order. IMO full-fare passengers should be entitled to sit where they choose. In their youth QR had a slight rep of evicting pax from their assigned seats to seat some level of 'royalty'; keeping prime seats unassigned is a less intrusive way of managing that.