For JFK-LIS *G and booked my first ever TAP flight on their website. OLCI opened and I used their app which is relatively painless. Except for a mistake I was making which kept leading to a red banner saying my check-in could not be completed until an agent checked my bag (I was clicking "yes" to whether somebody tampered with my bag out of muscle memory of where I thought the "no" button should be), things went smoothly.

They assigned me the dead last row aisle. Somebody checking in around the same time as me was auto assigned a middle seat in the row in front of me (based on ExpertFlyer seat map refresh during the process). Guess I should be thankful I didn't get a middle? I just don't get how TAP's auto assignment works and certainly why it's not taking my known *G status into account.

Anyway, I completed check-in for both segments and saved the BPs to my wallet. Now I went back in and selected the true Extra Legroom seat I want in the exit row and so far it's being held for me. Will log back in tomrw at 1hr4mins ahead of departure and do the swap out and swap back in to that seat and hopefully it is free. If not I'm not sure what seat I'll be flying in as the seat map shows my seat that I have a BP for unoccupied.

PS - I just realized on my connecting flight they put me in the exit row window which is my #1 preferred seat. So how did I get auto assigned one of the worst seats on the long haul and one of the best seats on the short haul? So weird.

-RM