No seats shown to pick from?
#1
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Hello all,
Booked a reward flight earlier this afternoon in CE. Am Silver so went to pick seats for both of us on the booking and got presented with a seat map showing CE as rows 1-7 but with all seats X out as in taken/not available other than 2F. It has also not allocated a seat by default to either of us. I have never seen this before and always managed to simply select a seat.
Is this simply a case of the divider needing to be moved back or is something amiss? Flight is not for a couple of weeks but it did amuse us that BA would like to offer us one seat between us - I mean I am happy to help out in the galley if needs must, so long as I get a cockpit jump seat for landing.
For context is an LGW BA A320 route and at time of booking 8 reward seats were available to book.
Thanks in advance - K
Booked a reward flight earlier this afternoon in CE. Am Silver so went to pick seats for both of us on the booking and got presented with a seat map showing CE as rows 1-7 but with all seats X out as in taken/not available other than 2F. It has also not allocated a seat by default to either of us. I have never seen this before and always managed to simply select a seat.
Is this simply a case of the divider needing to be moved back or is something amiss? Flight is not for a couple of weeks but it did amuse us that BA would like to offer us one seat between us - I mean I am happy to help out in the galley if needs must, so long as I get a cockpit jump seat for landing.
For context is an LGW BA A320 route and at time of booking 8 reward seats were available to book.
Thanks in advance - K
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Booked a reward flight earlier this afternoon in CE. Am Silver so went to pick seats for both of us on the booking and got presented with a seat map showing CE as rows 1-7 but with all seats X out as in taken/not available other than 2F. It has also not allocated a seat by default to either of us. I have never seen this before and always managed to simply select a seat.
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Also, if you do a search, you will find a lot of recent threads asking the exact same question and discussing the situation which I'd encourage you to look at for more details, as it is a fairly common situation, especially when flights are busy such as now. The bottom line is: "don't worry, you'll have a seat on the day in the overwhelming majority of cases and some might open earlier".
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#8
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Thanks mikeyfly In that case as Silver I should be able to select them (assuming solid is available? Though note, BA show 2F only as open to us to pick at present). First world issue I know - will have a look at the other threads to inform myself as to what is causing this at moment.
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Thanks mikeyfly In that case as Silver I should be able to select them (assuming solid is available? Though note, BA show 2F only as open to us to pick at present). First world issue I know - will have a look at the other threads to inform myself as to what is causing this at moment.
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