Originally Posted by
PITBULL1K
So minor issue in scheme of things but incredibly annoying all the same…being lowly bronze flying to Cpt in club on biz points…i pay for seat selection up front and they dump me on the back club row at online checkin.
what’s the point? I know I can request a refund and there are absolutely no free seats. So I am pissed before I even leave the house.
I dislike being at the back for numerous reasons not least slow service, at least it’s still the club suite but that’s not the point.
anyway rant over. Let’s see if any seats open up but I doubt it and let’s see what happens on the return
Before I gained status with BA I discovered quite a "shtick". Book and pay for your seats. Immediately afterwards fill out the seating refund form. A customer service agent once told me that seats are refundable if cancelled within 24 hours of purchase and you'll notice on the form that this is an option for reason requesting refund. You'll receive the refund within about a week and due to BA's IT system the seating will stick.
I did this quite a few times. Only 1 issue I had was when I did it for a flight 6 months out and it went back to me having no seating. About 2 weeks before the flight I did it again, got a refund and the seat stuck.
Works like a charm if you don't have status.