Gold Priority Award Booking for 3rd Party
Feb 9, 2021, 3:59 am
#1
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Gold Priority Award Booking for 3rd Party
I know I can book a GPR for someone else, the question I have been unable to answer is whether that person would get free seat selection on the basis of my status rather than theirs - i.e does a GPR because it has to be booked by a gold/ggl member automatically come with free seat selection?
Feb 9, 2021, 4:16 am
#2
Join Date: Jan 2017
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No, it doesn't. However if you are on the same flight as they are, you can call up and link ('TCP') your bookings, and then as a Gold member you can request a seat for the other person.
Otherwise, their ability to select seats will depend on their status (or they can pay as normal).
Otherwise, their ability to select seats will depend on their status (or they can pay as normal).
Feb 9, 2021, 4:34 am
#3
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No, it doesn't. However if you are on the same flight as they are, you can call up and link ('TCP') your bookings, and then as a Gold member you can request a seat for the other person.
Otherwise, their ability to select seats will depend on their status (or they can pay as normal).
Otherwise, their ability to select seats will depend on their status (or they can pay as normal).
Feb 10, 2021, 10:57 am
#4
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Feb 10, 2021, 3:39 pm
#6
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Is this an all-avios affair, or will you buy some tickets with cash and the others with avios? If the latter, then just make dummy bookings to see what seat selection costs (not sure if price rises after booking)? If the former you'll of course need to factor in who benefits most from the revenue tickets - Avios (you, with gold card) and the TPs (non-status holders, could make bronze?).
Feb 10, 2021, 8:47 pm
#7
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How about including yourself into the GPA booking and assign everyone seats accordingly. Then the following day call up and cancel yourself off the reservation? If done within 24hrs you'll get your redemption refunded in full. Once you're removed from the remaining travel party the seating should still stick for those remaining. Only if they decide to move seats again would they need to pay.
Feb 10, 2021, 11:04 pm
#8
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Due to all the aircraft switches at the moment, I doubt that bait and switch will work. If it's an A320 / shorthaul route it would be safer (and BACF safer still) but these are aircraft where seat reservations aren't usually a matter of concern.
Feb 11, 2021, 1:42 am
#9
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How about including yourself into the GPA booking and assign everyone seats accordingly. Then the following day call up and cancel yourself off the reservation? If done within 24hrs you'll get your redemption refunded in full. Once you're removed from the remaining travel party the seating should still stick for those remaining. Only if they decide to move seats again would they need to pay.
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Feb 11, 2021, 2:30 am
#10
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I know longhaul is not necessarily the sweet spot for GPR (cf flights over half term) but a combination of having "acquired" a chunk of avios with a base cost of circa 0.8p and the likely cash price of some premium cabins next xmas makes even using 200-300k "good value"