Booking American Flights on Iberia Website
Jan 4, 2013, 11:30 am
#16
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London
Programs: AA EXP 2 MM
Posts: 2,823
AA & Iberia don't go along that well when it comes to seat selection. Even when your flight has an AA flight number, if it's operated by Iberia you probably don't will be able to get seats assigned.
There seems to be 1 workaround and that is booking on AA.com, in that case you can call AA reservations and they will assign seats. If it's booked with a 3rd party you're not able to assign seats until check-in.
More here : http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ed-issues.html
There seems to be 1 workaround and that is booking on AA.com, in that case you can call AA reservations and they will assign seats. If it's booked with a 3rd party you're not able to assign seats until check-in.
More here : http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ed-issues.html
Jan 6, 2013, 12:36 pm
#17
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 1,546
Even when your flight has an AA flight number, if it's operated by Iberia you probably don't will be able to get seats assigned.
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More here : http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ed-issues.html
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More here : http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ed-issues.html
Jan 7, 2013, 11:31 am
#18
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Deptford, UK.
Programs: BD Gold (yes forever), BA Silver, Hilton Gold.
Posts: 547
Thank you to everyone for your help - my girlfriend found an email from AA with her Advantage club number on it, so we logged in to the website and searched for the flights by the AA flight number as suggested.
It brought up most of our itinerary with a different record locator to any we'd had before, and with the AA flight numbers - three of the four flights, the three that had IB flight numbers - and we seem to have been able to pick Main Cabin Extra seats.
The missing flight, DEN-ORD was initially booked with an AA flight number (as part of the same itinerary, but for some reason it didn't get the IB number). When we searched using that flight number we get the whole itinerary but the other three flights have their IB numbers and our seats are 'unassigned'.
We will check again later to see if this change has worked - the 'new' record locator from AA doesn't work on Check My Trip, and we might ring AA to make sure all four flights are linked on that record locator so there aren't any problems when we check in.
Thanks again!
It brought up most of our itinerary with a different record locator to any we'd had before, and with the AA flight numbers - three of the four flights, the three that had IB flight numbers - and we seem to have been able to pick Main Cabin Extra seats.
The missing flight, DEN-ORD was initially booked with an AA flight number (as part of the same itinerary, but for some reason it didn't get the IB number). When we searched using that flight number we get the whole itinerary but the other three flights have their IB numbers and our seats are 'unassigned'.
We will check again later to see if this change has worked - the 'new' record locator from AA doesn't work on Check My Trip, and we might ring AA to make sure all four flights are linked on that record locator so there aren't any problems when we check in.
Thanks again!
Jan 7, 2013, 12:06 pm
#19
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: DEB, flies from BUD
Programs: AA Plat (OWS), W6 Discount Club, TK Elite (*G), ex-MA Gold, Carlson Gold
Posts: 271
Thank you to everyone for your help - my girlfriend found an email from AA with her Advantage club number on it, so we logged in to the website and searched for the flights by the AA flight number as suggested.
It brought up most of our itinerary with a different record locator to any we'd had before, and with the AA flight numbers - three of the four flights, the three that had IB flight numbers - and we seem to have been able to pick Main Cabin Extra seats.
It brought up most of our itinerary with a different record locator to any we'd had before, and with the AA flight numbers - three of the four flights, the three that had IB flight numbers - and we seem to have been able to pick Main Cabin Extra seats.
The missing flight, DEN-ORD was initially booked with an AA flight number (as part of the same itinerary, but for some reason it didn't get the IB number). When we searched using that flight number we get the whole itinerary but the other three flights have their IB numbers and our seats are 'unassigned'.
CMP (CheckMyTrip) works with Amadeus, AA uses Sabre. AA record locators do not work with CMP, only Amadeus record locators (eg. IB or BA) work there.
Jan 7, 2013, 12:45 pm
#20
Join Date: May 2006
Location: TX
Programs: AA PPro/ 1MM+, Marriott LT Plat
Posts: 287
Interesting thread. I know in the past when going the other way (Booked AA as EXP with BA flights) I can call EXP desk and get the locator for the BA flight, but it doesn't seem to give me any status as Emerald. Of course the flights are short interEurope flights (occasionally LHR to DME, though), so not sure I get the benefit of OWE. Gotta start calling people I guess. 