seats changed [e-mails advising you've been evicted from your row 64 seat]
Jan 21, 2013, 11:58 am
#31
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Farce.
LHR/YVR and YVR/LHR.
64JK moved to 64AB both ways and won't let me move back, despite them being 'available'.
Other people are posting that they have been moved AB to JK.
What on earth are they playing at???
LHR/YVR and YVR/LHR.
64JK moved to 64AB both ways and won't let me move back, despite them being 'available'.
Other people are posting that they have been moved AB to JK.
What on earth are they playing at???
Jan 21, 2013, 12:01 pm
#33
Join Date: Jul 2011
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argh, just reading this thread sent me into a panic. Quickly checked emails - no emails , phew, but then the stress of signing on BA.com and checking my upcoming reservations - 5 flights next 9 months CW from LHR to LAS in 64 A and B.
Double phew, still in 64 a and b.
We are both gold, so didnt pay for the seat assignments and have never been bumped from these seats, even when silver, so very strange.
Hope they fix this for you guys!
Double phew, still in 64 a and b.
We are both gold, so didnt pay for the seat assignments and have never been bumped from these seats, even when silver, so very strange.
Hope they fix this for you guys!
Jan 21, 2013, 12:02 pm
#34
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FWIW, my seat (solo) selections for next month on 744s (one hi-J, one low-J) haven't changed; 60K outbound, 64A inbound. Nothing's changed for a trip in May with the family in Row 20 (three seats, one @ bassinet), also 744. All selected immediately after booking on ba.com. Perhaps because I'm Silver, perhaps not...
Jan 21, 2013, 12:10 pm
#36
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It seems like a lot of folks are being thrown out of 64K, Swanhunters favourite seat. Maybe he has control of the seating system and is causing all sorts of mayhem as he gets upset if folks are in 'his' seat 
Jesting apart doing a dummy booking on an LHR-LAX flightin Feb on the UD there are no seats available for payment (63J/K, 64 ABJK) but putting in a full fare J ticket it shows the whole of the UD as available? Hope the folks affected get their seats back. ^
Jesting apart doing a dummy booking on an LHR-LAX flightin Feb on the UD there are no seats available for payment (63J/K, 64 ABJK) but putting in a full fare J ticket it shows the whole of the UD as available? Hope the folks affected get their seats back. ^
Jan 21, 2013, 1:02 pm
#38
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Do you mind me asking, did you have to call up to get this changed back, or did it just happen automatically?
I called up earlier today and got fobbed off.
Jan 21, 2013, 1:06 pm
#39
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Is that the actual wording of the email? Does not sound like a BA (or properly worded English) email.
Jan 21, 2013, 1:08 pm
#40
Join Date: May 2011
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Bizarre.
was moved 64A to 63A. Advised by email it was for operational reasons.
Called and was told there was nothing that could be done, even though no one else was occupying 64A, but was advised that a Manager would ring me.
I immediately tried to put myself back into 64A but it wouldn't let me.
Just tried again (4 hours later), and it did!
was moved 64A to 63A. Advised by email it was for operational reasons.
Called and was told there was nothing that could be done, even though no one else was occupying 64A, but was advised that a Manager would ring me.
I immediately tried to put myself back into 64A but it wouldn't let me.
Just tried again (4 hours later), and it did!
Jan 21, 2013, 1:11 pm
#41
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Jan 21, 2013, 2:07 pm
#44
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I received an email from BA today saying that my seat on LHR-SFO had been changed, which I wasn't very happy about as I'm in 64A there and back. Went into MMB and saw the message saying my seat had been changed, but when I went to the actual seat map/selector, I was still in 64A.
Jan 21, 2013, 2:08 pm
#45
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If you got an email you are doing better than me.
HKG LHR upper deck booked 6 months in advance and at time 3 x silver and 1 gold in party. Moved without warning 7 days before departure to lower deck middle.
Have now lost count of the changes BA staff make to my bookings and seat reservations which have no email follow up. Cannot be anyone else as anything on ba.com generates email. this not the case if done in reservation system. Reported these to BA and security who simply deny there is a problem.
My cynical view is that it is special services ensuring that their clients get what they want and hang the rest.
HKG LHR upper deck booked 6 months in advance and at time 3 x silver and 1 gold in party. Moved without warning 7 days before departure to lower deck middle.
Have now lost count of the changes BA staff make to my bookings and seat reservations which have no email follow up. Cannot be anyone else as anything on ba.com generates email. this not the case if done in reservation system. Reported these to BA and security who simply deny there is a problem.
My cynical view is that it is special services ensuring that their clients get what they want and hang the rest.