Originally Posted by
Geordie405
I assume you're not Gold? If you are then you should be able to phone BA and have them assign seats for your wife and daughter even though they are on separate bookings. It's one of the benefits of Gold status. If you are not Gold then, unfortunately, you will need to wait until check-in to choose seats or, as you have alluded to, pay.
nope, slumming it down in blue as a mainly tourist flyer nowadays, so a proliferation of Avios based on spend and hotels rather than flights!