<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rogodwin:
I was also very surprised to discover QF does not preassign business seats. 
That was a first for me. Also for seat preferences, AA EXP or Saphire is third priority behind Qantas Chairman and Platinum flyers. So I ended in the center 3.
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rogodwin, you will please to know that AA actually treat QF Platinum members worse. I think this sums up every experience I have had on AA metal where I havent been on a QF flight number:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum71/HTML/019054.html
On a side note, I wish Qantas stopped pre-assigning seats on international flights. I can never get anything further forward than row 54 on a flight to LAX and usually end up in the high teens on SYD to WLG.