skydve1

Try the Finnair site too.

SanDiego1K

Good suggestion. It brought up the record. However, for each flight, it said "Unfortunately we cannot sell a seat for this flight. You will be assigned a seat at check-in."

SanDiego1K

I just spent half an hour on the phone with a Qatar agent. He went to the escalation team. They told him that being able to get a seat assignment for free was a matter of the fare and not OneWorld status. The fare does not permit free seat assignments. I was given an email address to which I can write to challenge this. [email protected]

anabolism

In my experience, QR always blocks the center Qsuites; they can be allocated using the QR web site booking management, but only for parties of two or more on a QR-issued ticket. For tickets issued by other carriers, such as AA or BA award itineraries, in my experience it requires calling or Twitter DMing QR; however, others have reported success with some AA reservations agents being able to allocate those seats.

It sounds like an inexperienced Twitter support agent who doesn't understand the difference between occupied and blocked. No need to make a dummy booking, you can easily see the difference by looking at the seat map for your flight in ExpertFlyer. The EF seat maps distinguishes between blocked and occupied.

That has not been my experience, and I've flown Qsuite since they were introduced. QR blocks all center quads but releases them for parties of two or more. (Three or more wouldn't make sense since each quad can be used as two pairs or as 3- or 4- sets.)

@pH it's very common for seat assignments not to show on a non-operating-carrier's web site. If AA shows you have seats on the AA-operated flight, that's what counts. AA and QR use different GDS and different passenger service and operations systems. Don't worry about data not being in sync, as long as it's correct where it counts.

The 'P' fare is new, and it's possible that QR is trying harder to force passengers to pay up to 'R', but it's also possible that different QR agents have different ideas (which is fairly common with QR). You might try calling again.

Andrew35K

Having booked two tickets through BA.co.uk with QR operating (BA Codeshare) all flights in the itinerary, neither BA nor QR can help me select seats as an R-class ticketed Oneworld Emerald. Could not do it online on either airline’s website. On both phone and WhatsApp they insisted that seats can only be selected 48h before the flights and the phone agent claimed seat selection was paid only - despite being OWE... So ended up emailing, but no reply at all for a week. Have managed to select seats (albeit no middle seats on QSuites) for 3 of the 4 flights through RJ. Deeply unimpressed with QRs response.

anabolism

In my experience, QR-operated codeshares are very difficult to get seats assigned. I have had success calling, but it has taken me multiple tries. I've had QR agents tell me they can't assign seats because the flight is sold as a codeshare, but other agents can do it. As I mentioned above, there are reports of the ticketing airline being able to assign blocked center seats. That's never been my experience, but others have reported success.

Andrew35K

BA are able to book seats, but not middle seats. Got it escalated to their “Oneworld hotline” and got told that QR has blocked them despite us being 2 travellers. Guess I’ll have to be satisfied with it just too bad I like the double beds during redeyes.

anabolism

I've had success calling QR for this, but it has taken multiple tries.

Andrew35K

Thanks, will try this. At least the queue to call QR has been shorter than the BA Gold line!

hawkfan7314

I got them to assign middle seats for my wife and I, who have two separate PNRs, using Twitter DM. It took a day or two to convey what I wanted and get results but they got it done.

englisha

I booked yesterday a reward flight with BA avios from OTP-DOH-SEZ in J for 2 of us. Initially we were assigned random seats not next to each other for each leg. Selecting seats through the BA link didn't work. QR site didn't have the option for seat selection. Tried RJ and it looked liked it worked, but it didn't in the end. Tried Qantas and it gave me an error at the end after selecting the seats. As a final attempt, I tried Malaysian airlines and low and behold, it worked and the seats now show on my booking.

So, my advice, try Malaysian airlines!

joerules

Thank you! Royal Jordanian stopped working after my flights changed and I kept getting disconnected on the phone when calling Qatar.

pmblinn

Please let us know response when you get it.

We are in same boat. Revenue J, I fare on the outbound (no issue with seat selection), R fare on return (seat selection for a fee only). We are both OWE through AS G75K.

Thanks!

SanDiego1K

I will. I've already failed with the twitter team. They completely ignored the issue of my OneWorld status. "You are traveling in Business (Classic) There is a charge for seat selection. Otherwise, you can wait until online check-in opens 48 hours before departure and select a regular seat free of charge."

anabolism

It seems strange that 'R' provides lounge access but not seat selection.