Delboy65

Thank you .. at least the problem with link from BA MMB remains
Spoke with very helpful BA lady (guessing in an Indian call centre) but she did stress i needed to contact QR as they are the Operating Carrier
Called again to the UK number on the QR UK website and spoke to a gentleman who was very patient but ...

we are both now in seats 2A and 3A on both legs from/to DOHA<>HKT

After a bad enough day doing the day job, can now sleep better knowing have an individual window seat rather than sat next to the OH on x2 7hr flights

my luck will be ... there'll be a change of aircraft before then lol

AirbusA350

I'm sorry but you're completely missing the point I was making, perhaps I wasn't being entirely clear, so allow me to explain.
The table you keep referring to is only applicable to 157 QR tickets with QR prime flight numbers. "Fare Families" (which is what QR calls them), ie. Lite, Comfort, Classic etc and their associated benefits (or lack of) are therefore only applicable to 157 tickets.

Your ticket is a 125 BA ticket and in addition it is a BA codeshare. That table does not mean anything in your scenario, ie. your BA 125 issued, BA codeshare "I" class ticket ≠ QR Business Comfort Fare Family, hence whatever benefits are listed in that table are not necessarily applicable to you (don't worry you'll still definitely get Al Mourjan lounge access though). It is highly possible that QR does not allow free seat selection (like BA doesn't on its own services) for non-Sapphire/Emerald status passengers, irrespective of the ticket fare class, if the ticket isn't QR issued.

See the following links for your reference:
https://qatarairways.zendesk.com/hc/...ther-airlines-
https://qatarairways.zendesk.com/hc/...Qatar-Airways-

If tweeting QR does not yield a result in terms of seat selection for free, then I believe you won't be able to. You might get lucky with another QR phone agent, however, as you've experienced, their usual standard answer with codeshare tickets is to call the issuing carrier. Even on their own 157 tickets, QR agents themselves are often unsuccessful in being able to select seats, particularly on QSuite flights (which I know yours isn't, as of now). All the best.

mikeyfly

Just off this flight couple of days ago. Don’t think all the days I’ve checked it it has changed from the 22J 788

etiene

We lucked into a 789 on that flight in late July, but I didn't see any swaps before that either - returned on the 788. That early Super Diamond config feels very open these days!

Never had any issues assigning seats on the QR site or App, but I was Silver throughout.

mikeyfly

Lucky! I agree it's a very open cabin, plus no bulkhead means whilst the aircraft was loading up in 36C DOH all the warm air was pumping into the cabin. There was an aircon on the stairs, but it wasn't on!

Overall found the 777 Club Suite far nice cabins