Originally Posted by
piertripla
Well my friend good luck.....
i am a member of Marco Polo (Silver...gettin into gold) and i just flew Milan-Madrid-S.Domingo and not only i got no benefit rather than a welcome on board from the crew, but i got the scrappiest place on the plane (row 33 on the airbus, this means for me (1.92 cm) not a trip but a torture.
Many thanks to the Iberia office in Milan for not responing at the 6 call made by me and the other more made by my travel agency, and thanks to all the ground staff in Milano for answering my request of a confortable row 8 or 22.
You should be able to do seat reservations if you have status, just not an exit row. Some of the bulkhead are not blocked, and can be reserved in advance. Getting an exit row is not an official oneworld benefit, so there is not much to complain about.
Personally I have been upgraded on 3 out of 4 IB longhaul sectors (as a BA gold), so I'm pretty happy about the treatment I got as a oneworld emerald.