Originally Posted by
nacirema
aa should be able to get you a seat on ib (and if not, call ib with aa record locator) and you can chose your own ba seat with aa record locator and last name on
www.ba.com under "manage my booking".
you don't need the ticket number.
That is good to know that AA record locator works on BA. I also notice the first leg of IB now has seat assignments.
With *Star award you need to get partner airlines record locators to have them locate the reservations. Each time the itinerary changed, if UA failed to re-issue the ticket, the partners would see you being UNTICKETED. I found that out by a very friendly Air NZ agent that UA never re-ticketed us even after 3 changes. She went like this, "you may want to remind your travel agent to issue the tickets because right now all you have is the reservation, but not ticket." I was going like this,
then
at UA.
I am glad AA procedures seem to be more streamlining.