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Old Aug 11, 2025 | 4:10 pm
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Originally Posted by JeffS661
AA said that the seats were released one at a time so my wife and I didn’t get the seats even though there were 2 seats available. I probably could have split us and given her one seat but I didn’t do that. Seems crappy that the person with no status gets the upgrade over someone with ExPl.
That's not quite how it works. You could have gotten the seat before the no status passenger but chose not to. When I travel with my SO, we always book on separate PNRs. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Passengers in one PNR can't be in different cabins.
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