Originally Posted by
JohnAx
Well, EF has been less than the paragon of airline wisdom in the past, so I suppose their IB seat maps could also be useless. I should have checked EF to see if the seats I was assigned disappeared at that moment (suggesting that EF was probably accurate and the IB agent was taking it on herself to save the seats for real IB customers instead of OW drop-ins on AA PNRs - flights are in the next few days and I was asking for the last pairs of seats in some cases).
Perhaps it depends on how many days you mean by "a few". I don't remember now how many days before, but I do know seat allocation goes to airport control well before the flight. Maybe that was the reason. Maybe.