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AA Flyers and Seat Selection on British Airways Operated Flights
Link to FlyerTalk British Airways | Executive Club / BAEC forum guide thread with Wikipost: BA Seating Policy Guide

Link to BAEC forum Dashboard, including seating guides for BA aircraft. Please make enquiries regarding BA aircraft seats in the appropriate thread in the BAEC forum, not here in the AA forum, for better response.

Link to britishairways.com page "Choosing your seat" (policies and how to).

Link to BA Speedbird Club (agent site) seat policyFor Country select "Global"; for IATA number, press on "I don't have an IATA"

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The Passenger should be advised



BA will pre-seat the customer subject to availability & seat requests

are never guaranteed and always subject to operational needs



Subsequent seat change



Should an aircraft or configuration change generate an automated

operational seat change that separates the party, the ‘request seat’

process must be initiated again. The travel agent would need to

remove and re-enter the TOGT keyword.

Also from the BA website:

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Members of the Executive Club and other oneworld frequent flyers are able to

reserve seats at different stages, depending on their tier.



Tier Seat selection



Gold/oneworld Emerald Free seat selection from the time of booking

for everyone in your booking and friends and family on other bookings,

who are travelling with you in the same travel class and on the same flight*.



Silver/oneworld Sapphire Free seat selection from the time of booking

for everyone in your booking*.



Bronze/oneworld Ruby Free seat selection from seven days before

departurefor everyone in your booking*.



*You must be travelling on the booking (or in the case of Gold Members,

one of the bookings) for these benefits to apply. They apply to British

Airways flights only and are not available on Basic (HBO / hand baggage only)

fares or group rate bookings. Exit row seats are not available to Silver or

Bronze Members on long haul flights until 24 hours before departure.

On some occasions, exit rows seats on short haul flights may not be

available in advance due to operational reasons.

Selecting seats can be done via the BA "Manage My Booking" tool (link) which may recognize your AA PNR (you will need your PNR and last name to log on to MMB). If not, you can get your BA PNR by calling AA, or you can go to the Qantas website, enter your AA PNR and you will be presented with your BA PNR.

Updated 26 Oct 2016 - JDiver