LionRed

+1 . Exit rows now back for me for an RFS booked yesterday for early March, an existing RFS for Feb remained unaffected.

lost_in_translation

ET (not HBO), end Mar and early Apr

crazy8534

This is what I can determine from my own bookings:

1. Some of the exit rows are now selectable- but not on all bookings (domestics LHR-EDI for instance can't see any exit rows available yet)
2. On a family booking, there is 1 flight where I can select an exit row if I log in as myself (Gold) but if I log in as my toddler (Silver) then I can't select those seats.

Personally, I think it is a glitch that is being corrected in tranches, but the risk would appear to be that some levels (perhaps SCH and below) are not able to select exit rows until T-72.

lorcancoyle

2D on an E190 now selected (couldn't choose it a few hours ago) - I feel like I've been reunited with [insert something important here]

(Still no row 10 seats free for my A319 DUB flight at the end of March - but suspect someone has grabbed them all as rows ahead pretty full it seems)

ianwall

Tried the same dummy booking as yesterday (LHR-EDI, non HBO in March) and cannot select emergency exit seats during the booking process.

BobbySteel

Oneworld Emerald here - flying LHR-DUB on Wednesday and every seat is available including exit rows now.

sts603

So seemingly its silvers who are the only ones negatively effected? Sorry to those but I see this as a positive change given the number of golds relative to the number of exit row seats.

pianotraveller

Exit rows on my upcoming ET flights are now available for selection again, which they weren't two days ago.

agehall

Not quite true - when attempting a dummy booking way out (october) I still see all of the forward ET cabin blocked, including the emergency exit rows.

moral_low_ground

Where are all the lurkers on this board from BA...no one official care to comment.

Has anyone posted a question or complaint on Twitter as BA seem to react better to complaints on that medium.

I would guess it's either an IT glitch or BA trying out and seeing how much sh*t gets raised. If none then proceed and withdraw benefit, if loads then rescind and blame on an IT glitch.

For me, if they take away yet another Gold benefit then it will just seal the move to EK permanently (and in any event with the down turn in the economy BA are soon going to get screwed with all those super-hi J seats that no one wants to pay for (check out the finance companies, oil companies, everyone cutting costs just as BA, late to the party again, ramp up on super Hi-J)).

Kgmm77

The problem with this point of view is that whilst it may be (temporarily) seen on its own as a benefit for Golds, set in the context of a series of changes which are all negatives to some or all fliers, it is only a matter of time before the next benefit is trimmed for Golds (and rationalised as being a benefit by being trimmed less than for Silvers, Bronzes etc.).

To put in context, given what you've said re numbers of Golds is pretty much a constant, the number of them complaining about exit row availability on here is pretty much zero. So its solving a problem that you didn't know existed until now....!

rockflyertalk

BAEC Silver here...

Exit row available on my ET flight this week.

agehall

Exactly when is your flight?

Richmond_Surrey

Yes, seat selection in emergency rows is back on my flights in May.

corporate-wage-slave

Just to confirm that I can now select all six seats in row 10 on this INV sector.