Originally Posted by
tommyleo
Well, that's cool. I've travelled with groups on other airlines before and the seating was quite random. (We're typically placed in groups of 2-3 throughout the cabin.)
Even though NZ will try to seat us together as a group, will they honor my *G status if I request a preferred seat?
Also, I just noticed that you have over 27,000 posts on FT!! Wow! You must have helped a lot of people since 2003. ^
They will try - if the whole group is on one PNR a SSR entry is used to request group seating ‘(variables) GROUP BLOCK SEATING RQST’.
If you want a preferred seat what happens is the PNR is divided out and you are put on your own PNR (it can have up to 9 pax on it). So if you are *G you can have yourself plus 8 other pax 'divided out' and put into NV (preferred) seats, and then the rest of the group seated together (this would generally end up at the back).