Originally Posted by
erikh94
I am currently seated in 1A, and wanted to seat m mum in 1C, but the agent was seeing that as booked...
Unless there's been a recent change, all passengers selecting row 1 in advance have to be Gold. It's not sufficient to be traveling with a Gold card holder. I would be surprised if the agent saw the other seat as 'booked'. Perhaps they meant 'blocked' which would be correct.