Originally Posted by jjclancy
So then 'Preferred Seating' just means that Qantas picks a seat for you, and assigns higher status members seats before lower/no-status folks? I guess the seats are picked before the 24h online checkin window.
Not quite.
On QF domestic, preferred seating means that you can designate a preferred seating choice ( e.g. window/aisle and forward/rear ) and QF will attempt to honour that request when automatic allocation takes place
On international, you can still select seats from the seatmap after the seating has closed for non status persons. Also, there are a few rows of seats in economy (Qualified seating) which are only available to passengers with OW status to pre-select from
Dave