irishguy28

Of course not.

If you put your AA number in the booking, any miles that can be earned on the flight will go to your AA account, not to your BA account. If you leave your BA number in the booking, any miles that can be earned on the flight will go to your BA account.

Why, though, do you have both an AA and a BA account? For the vast majority of people, it makes sense to collect all miles awarded by a particular alliance in a single programme only. Having more than one active programme within any single alliance is counter-productive. If you put some miles in your BA account and some miles in your AA account, you have less flexibility than when you consolidate all your miles in a single programme (and will find it harder to achieve status).

evanderm

AA and BA did not always offer miles for each others flights. E.g. LON-US. Another example is that you can't earn BA miles on AA flights booked in O-class. Hence why I have both an AA and a BA account but choose one to be my main.

aznaphrodite

I have both because of the 100,000 miles BA credit card offer. I signed up for the card and a BA account to get the miles. Flying with miles to London & Paris in Business class! Yay!

OxonCantab

I went through this same issue earlier. You need to call in and have them manually put in your status. Of course, some BA agents may be more knowledgable/agreeable than others(the ones in Hong Kong refused to do so)

sts603

Any more recent experiences with seat assignments for One World Ruby's (non-BA) at 7 days out?

JAXBA

Quote:

Originally Posted by OxonCantab

You need to call in and have them manually put in your status. Of course, some BA agents may be more knowledgable/agreeable than others

No experience from me sts603 but I've just noticed OxonCantab's post from a couple of years ago, ebtter late than never I suppose: status cannot be added manually to a PNR, at least not in a way that would unlock seatmaps, etc. Amadeus only displays/recognises the status that was last updated in its central database of profiles, and if that hasn't ticked over yet then the status can be stuck. Sometimes deleting the FQTV and adding it back again just doesn't do anything, although it should.

I had this issue with a JL member a few years who was actually oneworld Sapphire and not Ruby as Amadeus insisted he was, and nothing I or JL did could force Amadeus to update - I was told that only when the next mass data feed was sent by JL to Amadeus would it eventually happen.

KD5MDK

It's working for me (AA Gold), at 7 days before each flight. I've done my outbound sectors and have to wait until Monday to do the inbound.

dukerau

I got AA Gold (oneworld Ruby) status after booking a BA flight (with my AA FF # listed). At T-7 days, I was not given the option to select seats for free. I pulled up my reservation details at finnair.com and removed my AA frequent flyer # from the reservation. Then I went back into the reservation on finnair.com and re-added my AA frequent flyer number. Immediately afterwards, BA.com showed no FF information on my reservation summary, though when I clicked through to add it on BA.com, it still "remembered" my info. Then about 30 minutes later I pulled up my reservation again on BA.com and it did have my frequent flyer # listed again. Then I went in to select seats and it was free

So in summary, if you aren't getting the option to select seats for free at T-7 and you are oneworld Ruby:
1. Use finnair.com to remove your frequent flyer information from the reservation
2. Use finnair.com to add your frequent flyer information back to the reservation
3. Wait ~30 min
4. Access your reservation on ba.com and select seats. Should be free.

nux

You do realise the post you've replied to is over 4 years old and the user is suspended?

aznaphrodite

Thank you for posting this! I had the same issue with my BA flights and was able to reserve my seats 7 days in advance after following your instructions!

aznaphrodite

Suspended? I'm not suspended.

Anyway, it was helpful to me because I flew BA again last month, got in the same situation, and needed the reminder.

nux

The user whos post they quoted is suspended.

Soulag

Thanks to OP for this trick. I am AA Platinum and was able change my status on a BA reservation using this techniqueand select seats for free.