Originally Posted by
ethan
[Rant on]Now if any BA lurkers come across this thread and decide to close the loophole, may I respectfully ask consideration be given to some sort of fast-track to Gold status for very frequent flyers starting from scratch? Or amend the seat assignment policy - it drives me nuts. Or at least get it to work as advertised. And get the website to tell you why you can't move and/or assign seats in your specific case - not a generic message.[Rant off]
Well done on this.
I would have thought that this is a sufficiently rare event that BA wouldn't go to the trouble of "fixing" it, especially as such passengers are precisely the sort that BA presumably want to look after.