Up until a few months ago, I would book a KLM flight originating in the US, then call KLM in Amsterdam to get my select seating. Now, KLM in Amsterdam refuses to assign seats for tickets bought from NW. Despite what they may tell you, even when a NW agent logs into the KLM system the agent does not have access to all of the select seating - in the good old days I would call NW in the US, they would log into the KLM system and tell me a seat was not available, and then I would call Amsterdam and they would reserve that very same seat for me.

I know this has been discussed before, but the question is, has anyone found a solution to the problem? How do you book select seats (as a NW Elite) on flights from the US?