F Award Ticketed - No Seat Assignment
Mar 2, 2022, 10:14 am
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F Award Ticketed - No Seat Assignment
I just booked an award flight from JFK - LHR in F. Ticketed but no seat assignment (all occupied) and flight seems to be zero'd out on Expert Flyer.
Thoughts?
Thanks
Thoughts?
Thanks
Mar 2, 2022, 10:43 am
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How close is the flight? Not much you can do other than keep an eye on it and grab a seat if one opens up before.
Mar 2, 2022, 12:39 pm
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I think if it's ticketed you should be protected in case of F oversell.
If this is a leisure trip I'd just enjoy FFD. There's surely enough JFK-LHR that maybe one F seat is available, possibly rebooking you in a revenue class (and thus earning LP/miles) or even better maybe you'll get downgraded to J (an upgrade if you ask me) and get 75% of your miles back per EC261.
If this is a leisure trip I'd just enjoy FFD. There's surely enough JFK-LHR that maybe one F seat is available, possibly rebooking you in a revenue class (and thus earning LP/miles) or even better maybe you'll get downgraded to J (an upgrade if you ask me) and get 75% of your miles back per EC261.
Mar 2, 2022, 5:56 pm
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I think if it's ticketed you should be protected in case of F oversell.
If this is a leisure trip I'd just enjoy FFD. There's surely enough JFK-LHR that maybe one F seat is available, possibly rebooking you in a revenue class (and thus earning LP/miles) or even better maybe you'll get downgraded to J (an upgrade if you ask me) and get 75% of your miles back per EC261.
If this is a leisure trip I'd just enjoy FFD. There's surely enough JFK-LHR that maybe one F seat is available, possibly rebooking you in a revenue class (and thus earning LP/miles) or even better maybe you'll get downgraded to J (an upgrade if you ask me) and get 75% of your miles back per EC261.
Mar 2, 2022, 7:47 pm
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if there are no seats, make a backup plan if being in F is important. I mean like a different flight that hopefully has some first availability. They will likely reach out to you via phone call so check your messages in the next few days to get you to move. I didn't make a plan, this happened to me, I ended up in the back of coach and was significantly late. I got back some miles for the trouble, but would rather have had the front seat.
Mar 3, 2022, 8:39 am
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Haven't seen a story about it recently but there have been a number of cases of pax on F awards losing their seats in F and being forced to accept a downgrade. Being prepared for that possibility is good advice. Have you checked on something like ExpertFlyer to see whether all of the seats are truly occupied? Some may be just blocked.