Intra-European seat selection - 3 days?
Apr 13, 2010, 11:15 am
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Intra-European seat selection - 3 days?
Hi,
I was just checking my flight details for friday morning, and noticed that I could already select my seat on KLM.com. Since its tuesday today, that means almost 3 full days till departure.
I always thought this is only possible from 32h before departure for intra-european flights? This is a basic AMS-ATH itinerary with KLM, on 074 stock. The only 'different' thing about this booking is that I used another TA..but that should not influence those things..
Am I the only one or is KLM slowly allowing more advanced seat selections?
The return flight, which is a few days later, cannot be selected yet.
I was just checking my flight details for friday morning, and noticed that I could already select my seat on KLM.com. Since its tuesday today, that means almost 3 full days till departure.
I always thought this is only possible from 32h before departure for intra-european flights? This is a basic AMS-ATH itinerary with KLM, on 074 stock. The only 'different' thing about this booking is that I used another TA..but that should not influence those things..
Am I the only one or is KLM slowly allowing more advanced seat selections?
The return flight, which is a few days later, cannot be selected yet.
Apr 13, 2010, 1:02 pm
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I have managed three times or so in the last months to select a seat on intra Europe Y some days before flying. Only outbound not inbound and not on all flights so far. Either a new feature but poorly implemented (and unpublicized) or a mistake in the website I guess.
First time was in January - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/klm-f...uropean-y.html
Still nice that it occasionally happens.
First time was in January - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/klm-f...uropean-y.html
Still nice that it occasionally happens.
Apr 13, 2010, 2:02 pm
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Ah, I did not notice your thread! Seems to be the same 'issue' indeed. Not bad, actually its quite a nice feature. Lets see if the chosen seat will copy 1:1 when doing OLCI :-)
Apr 13, 2010, 3:14 pm
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MAD-AMS was not OLCI-able and no seating could be pre-selected which vibes with your observation about outbound-only.
Interestingly, it was impossible to select exit rows in the advanced selection even though that could be fixed during luggage drop-off...
Apr 14, 2010, 12:54 am
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It did last week on a AMS-BCN-IBZ-MAD-AMS itinerary. BCN-IBZ and IBZ-MAD were on Air Europa and were assigned during ticketing. AMS-BCN was KLM and was selectable a few days before flying in the Manage My Booking interface.
MAD-AMS was not OLCI-able and no seating could be pre-selected which vibes with your observation about outbound-only.
MAD-AMS was not OLCI-able and no seating could be pre-selected which vibes with your observation about outbound-only.
Same here. OLCI gave me the pre-selected seat but I could still change to a exit row.