Preferential seating
May 28, 2017, 1:06 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2016
Programs: Air New Zealand Airpoints-Silver and Koru
Posts: 31
Preferential seating
When the 'Powers that be' are deciding on RUs, do they take into account Koro memberships? That's if there're only Preferential /Frequent Flyer seating available.
May 28, 2017, 3:09 pm
#3
Join Date: Dec 2014
Programs: NZ*Elite *G, QF*G, SPG*Platinum, Accor*Platinum, Hilton*Gold
Posts: 1,006
Nope. Koru should really be a glorified NZ lounge access with better perks/recognition than other lounge memberships. If Koru had any weighting, surely many Elites would just pay for the membership?
May 28, 2017, 3:51 pm
#5
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 366
There's probably few koru members with RUs other than Silver members who can get single RU per year or a few recently qualified Golds. One of the benefits of reaching Gold or above is that you receive the majority if not all of the koru perks without needing to pay for membership and in fact Air NZ don't even send you a reminder or message to renew koru once you achieve Gold.
May 29, 2017, 2:12 pm
#8
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,112
Why do you assume that?
RU's are a lottery and Koru has nothing to do with them. As to whether your RU will clear that's a very different question and depends entirely on how many other people are ahead of you in the RU list.
RU's are a lottery and Koru has nothing to do with them. As to whether your RU will clear that's a very different question and depends entirely on how many other people are ahead of you in the RU list.
May 29, 2017, 8:59 pm
#11
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Programs: Air New Zealand Airpoints-Silver and Koru
Posts: 31
May 29, 2017, 9:03 pm
#12
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Programs: Air New Zealand Airpoints-Silver and Koru
Posts: 31
I assume that because when I did a dummy booking there were several preferential seats available (which I would be eligible for as a Koru member) but only a couple of ordinary seats. I am only Silver, so I'm down the chain. Statuses above me would take those.
May 29, 2017, 10:44 pm
#13
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,112
Preferred seats mean nothing in the context of an RU - they don't just upgrade HVC's to preferred seats and everybody else to the other seats if that's what your thinking.
May 29, 2017, 11:23 pm
#14
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: New Zealand
Programs: NZ Elite, QF Platinum (LTS), VA Platinum
Posts: 1,672
If you're talking about the pink preferred seats you can just buy those. Passengers with status also need to buy these. If you're talking about the yellow seats then you should be able to select as a koru member. Black seats are blocked.