Originally Posted by
phkc070408
2 of us, non-premiers, are hoping to tour Australia in July and August. We're not going to book anything yet, but we'll be doing a multi-city SYD-CNS-MEL-ADL-KGC-ADL-MEL. All segments will be in J except for the KGC segments.
When doing a test-booking, it will only let us select seats in Row 3 on the 737 and Row 4 and behind on the A330. I know I can change to a seat closer to the front closer to departure, but is there any way to do it earlier? Can an agent do this?
By the sounds of it you must use the UA program a bit if you call it premiers. You don't need Qantas status specifically and any oneworld status will be sufficient, if you do hold some form of UA status then you could perform a status challenge (you'd need to fly a bit on AS or AA) and this would give you oneworld status to access better seats on QF.
Otherwise, Qantas block business class seats until 80 hours prior to departure so you'd need to wait until 80 hours prior to each flight to see if there are any seats in forward rows remaning. Specially you'll need oneworld sapphire status to access row 2 and oneworld emerald status to access row 1 on 737's.