Originally Posted by
ROKNA
As this is a reward ticket you are stuck with automatically assigned seats unless you requested a seat allocation more than 72hours before departure
I'm currently at DUB while transferring on an intra-EU Aer Club redemption, and I was able to freely select a seat from the seat map for both sectors while checking in online at T-48hrs (and I have no status in Aer Club)
The error message looks like a glitch; this is not normal for travel on EI on redemptions