Advance seat assignment on UA-marketed but LX-operated flight
May 25, 2022, 5:56 am
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Advance seat assignment on UA-marketed but LX-operated flight
I am looking to book a Premium Economy seat on a United Airlines marketed, but Swiss operated codeshare flight. I've searched on this forum and elsewhere and it seems like economy fares usually can't assign seats in advance (even if they pay), while business class fares can. However, I can't find anything on the new Premium Economy product. Is it possible to choose a seat in advance for this flight, either for free or with a fee?
May 28, 2022, 2:45 pm
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Jun 4, 2022, 4:33 pm
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On a UA booked ticket, my last 8+ months experience is a bold no. Irrespective of class of service and cost, neither airline can assign you any real seasts and in the rare cases it might work (Biz cabin e.g.), it won't stick.
Jun 5, 2022, 8:04 am
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Jun 5, 2022, 7:41 pm
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Jun 11, 2022, 8:17 am
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that is different though. Award tickets never have codeshare flight numbers. Getting seats on LX flights with LX flight numbers is easy ... can be done on swiss.com incl. for UA tickets. It is the codeshares that you can't do online.
Jun 20, 2022, 9:45 am
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that is unusual. You can enter it during OLCI - I assume you want it in for SAG benefits?
Jun 20, 2022, 1:35 pm
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Booked DFW-ORD-ZUR-DXB as a United codeshare for the last leg. I was finally able to get my LX booking confirmation number (it wasn't easy) and called LX to choose my seats. LX told me that the LX portion of the flight has not been ticketed yet. It's been three days since I booked - any idea how long it normally takes for a code share flight to be ticketed by LX? Thank you.
Jun 20, 2022, 2:12 pm
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Booked DFW-ORD-ZUR-DXB as a United codeshare for the last leg. I was finally able to get my LX booking confirmation number (it wasn't easy) and called LX to choose my seats. LX told me that the LX portion of the flight has not been ticketed yet. It's been three days since I booked - any idea how long it normally takes for a code share flight to be ticketed by LX? Thank you.
If it is indeed not ticketed ... call UA asap and get that fixed.
Jun 20, 2022, 4:57 pm
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So Swiss had no record of the zur - Dxb leg being reserved or even ticketed even though it was on my United booking confirmation. Swiss had no Swiss metal leg on my reservation at all - which is odd because why would I have a Swiss booking code if there was no Swiss metal leg.l? Swiss said cannot help me.
I spent an hour on with United and they said that Swiss was not confirming any premium cabins on my codeshare flight but they cannot see why.
she went on hold for 15 minutes and somehow forced it through and manually adjusted the ticket price to what I originally paid.
i suspect something going on with Swiss not wanting to honor the fare originally because just the zur to Dxb leg on Swiss alone was the same price as my entire dfw-ord-zur-Dxb trip in biz
I spent an hour on with United and they said that Swiss was not confirming any premium cabins on my codeshare flight but they cannot see why.
she went on hold for 15 minutes and somehow forced it through and manually adjusted the ticket price to what I originally paid.
i suspect something going on with Swiss not wanting to honor the fare originally because just the zur to Dxb leg on Swiss alone was the same price as my entire dfw-ord-zur-Dxb trip in biz
Jun 25, 2022, 7:49 pm
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So Swiss had no record of the zur - Dxb leg being reserved or even ticketed even though it was on my United booking confirmation. Swiss had no Swiss metal leg on my reservation at all - which is odd because why would I have a Swiss booking code if there was no Swiss metal leg.l? Swiss said cannot help me.
I spent an hour on with United and they said that Swiss was not confirming any premium cabins on my codeshare flight but they cannot see why.
she went on hold for 15 minutes and somehow forced it through and manually adjusted the ticket price to what I originally paid.
i suspect something going on with Swiss not wanting to honor the fare originally because just the zur to Dxb leg on Swiss alone was the same price as my entire dfw-ord-zur-Dxb trip in biz
I spent an hour on with United and they said that Swiss was not confirming any premium cabins on my codeshare flight but they cannot see why.
she went on hold for 15 minutes and somehow forced it through and manually adjusted the ticket price to what I originally paid.
i suspect something going on with Swiss not wanting to honor the fare originally because just the zur to Dxb leg on Swiss alone was the same price as my entire dfw-ord-zur-Dxb trip in biz
Once the ticket was actually issued I am certain LX was able to assign you seats.
Jun 25, 2022, 11:44 pm
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I am still not exactly sure what happened - maybe UA screwed that up. I had a 016 ticket the entire time for each passenger and the United side (log in to United site with United booking code) showed the tickets and all the flights including the Swiss flight. But when I logged into the swiss site with the swiss booking code, it only showed the United legs on the ticket.
if I would have never logged into the swiss site because I wanted to choose seats I would have never known there was a problem.
only after United did whatever the heck they did, the Swiss leg showed up as ticketed on the Swiss site and I was able to choose seats online.
if I would have never logged into the swiss site because I wanted to choose seats I would have never known there was a problem.
only after United did whatever the heck they did, the Swiss leg showed up as ticketed on the Swiss site and I was able to choose seats online.