Originally Posted by sfvoyage

And at the risk of going further OT, I do have a related question. How does one distinguish a seat that is already taken vs. that is reserved for elites and/or at OLCI?

In my case, I am looking at the seat map of my flight on my booking agent (via my cruise line's air department) because I cannot access my booking on JAL's website. Apologies for taking this even further OT: I tried to input AA's confirmation #, JL's confirmation #, AA's flight #, JL's flight # (and I know that my "first name" is actually my first name plus my full middle name, entered without any spaces), but no combination would work - I keep getting an error message that they cannot locate my booking.)