Originally Posted by astralclouds
Just returned from a pleasant weekend in AMS. Ms astralclouds and myself were on separate bookings - she booked an el-cheapo Y, I was outbound in J (corporate return leg) and on a one-way in Y for the return.
Point is, with no obvious connection between our bookings, BA very kindly op-upped us to adjacent seats in CE. We knew something was up when SSCI showed that we could not change our seats. But curious to know what data they use to ascertain that we are travelling together?
I'm stunned. Most flights I take I'm travelling with at least one colleague, almost always (for reasons best known to our TA) on seperate bookings. It should be easy enough to correlate the bookings - given that they'll have been made at the same time, by the same company, on the same account, etc. However I can't remember the last time I was actually allocated a set anywhere near the people I was travelling with. More often we end up at opposite corners of the cabin, and have to hope that we can switch to more useful sets on MMB (tricky, as we frequently don't get the flight details until late in the process) or OLCI - which means us all being online simultaneously and trying to co-ordinate our changes...
Last time we were on a group booking, it was too large a group for the MMB and OLCI systems to cope with and by the time we got to the airport to check in the old fashioned way, there wasn't a lot of choice in seating.