Seat assignments and losing status
Jan 26, 2019, 5:32 am
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Seat assignments and losing status
Does anyone know how long it takes between losing status and losing seat assignments? (Family member loses there GCH shortly, don’t think soft landing happens to partner card holders anymore?)
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Jan 26, 2019, 5:34 am
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Previously assigned seats generally won’t disappear unless BA has a reason to change them- such as a aircraft chnage or flight time chnage. Fingers crossed for you.
Jan 26, 2019, 7:17 am
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Actually, there have been quite a few people reporting losing their gold/emerald reserved seat assignments after losing status. Others never lose them but it seems very random as is, precisely, the question of when they may drop out. IIRC, for some people it happened very early on but for others months after losing status and at times when other "good" seats were all gone.
Jan 26, 2019, 7:31 am
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Actually, there have been quite a few people reporting losing their gold/emerald reserved seat assignments after losing status. Others never lose them but it seems very random as is, precisely, the question of when they may drop out. IIRC, for some people it happened very early on but for others months after losing status and at times when other "good" seats were all gone.
Jan 26, 2019, 7:44 am
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It's a theory and a plausible one, but I'd be a bit nervous about the more positive phrasing used earlier especially as I don't recall people specifically mentioning equipment changes etc. There are a few other hypotheses (from human intervention to the system being scheduled to "self clean" on seat assignments (ineligible, unconfirmed bookings etc) every x weeks or even the system automatically aiming to offer gold seats to golds making new bookings and identifying ineligible assignments then) that might just as well be correct I think.