code share flight with differing seat assignments
Sep 29, 2012 | 12:00 pm
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code share flight with differing seat assignments
I am on a codeshare. I booked the codeshare through LY, but the first leg is on AA.
I selected seats at first via LY, and when I did, aisles were blocked from selection. Then I got the AA record number and went and selected seats there. Directly via AA it was possible to select an aisle, so I did. LY still shows the old, non-aisle seat selection, and aisles are still blocked from selection, so I can't re-select it to make the same choices in both places.
What the heck is going to happen on the day of the flight? Whose seat assignment is going to win out?
I selected seats at first via LY, and when I did, aisles were blocked from selection. Then I got the AA record number and went and selected seats there. Directly via AA it was possible to select an aisle, so I did. LY still shows the old, non-aisle seat selection, and aisles are still blocked from selection, so I can't re-select it to make the same choices in both places.
What the heck is going to happen on the day of the flight? Whose seat assignment is going to win out?
Sep 30, 2012 | 9:51 pm
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This is normal, due to poor communication between the reservation systems. AA will issue your BP for the AA flights using the AA system seat assingment, so you'll be fine. The LY values are irrelevant (they were just what LY sent to AA initially). Just don't have LY issue your BPs (not that they ever would!).
Oct 4, 2012 | 6:28 am
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This is normal, due to poor communication between the reservation systems. AA will issue your BP for the AA flights using the AA system seat assingment, so you'll be fine. The LY values are irrelevant (they were just what LY sent to AA initially). Just don't have LY issue your BPs (not that they ever would!).
Awesome, and THANK YOU!
The AA assignments are the ones I WANT to hold, so I hope it all works out as you've described
Oct 4, 2012 | 7:49 am
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What if when the OP checks in with LY and the LY system is unable to see which seats tje AA has system has assigned?
I had a DL itinerary, held by DL, but the ticket had to be issued by AF, as I was using an AF issued e-cert.
AF had to generate another booking with its own PNR to issue the ticket. I was afraid that this would make me lose my seat assignments with DL. Fortunately, when AF duplicated thr DL itinerary, they did not generate a new DL PNR. Somehow DL PNR did not transfer my credit card info to AF and AF did not issue the ticket for lack of PNR info. When the ticket had not been issued for more than 24 hours, five days before the travel date, I called and was assured that it would be issued soon. This prompted AF to call me to get the credit card info. Iade sure that all my flights were DL coded. They were all on DL metal. Had they been AF coded, I would have lost the ability to change seat assigments in case a better seat opened up closure to departure, especially for the return leg on which I was eligible for upgrade.
I was able to change to a better upgrade seat. Yet communication was less than perfect. The AF PNR reflected my Diamond staus on DL, but not my Million Miller status on DL.
No harm done. I would like to knoe what happens to OP's seating at the time of check-in.
What if when the OP checks in with LY and the LY system is unable to see which seats tje AA has system has assigned?
I had a DL itinerary, held by DL, but the ticket had to be issued by AF, as I was using an AF issued e-cert.
AF had to generate another booking with its own PNR to issue the ticket. I was afraid that this would make me lose my seat assignments with DL. Fortunately, when AF duplicated thr DL itinerary, they did not generate a new DL PNR. Somehow DL PNR did not transfer my credit card info to AF and AF did not issue the ticket for lack of PNR info. When the ticket had not been issued for more than 24 hours, five days before the travel date, I called and was assured that it would be issued soon. This prompted AF to call me to get the credit card info. Iade sure that all my flights were DL coded. They were all on DL metal. Had they been AF coded, I would have lost the ability to change seat assigments in case a better seat opened up closure to departure, especially for the return leg on which I was eligible for upgrade.
I was able to change to a better upgrade seat. Yet communication was less than perfect. The AF PNR reflected my Diamond staus on DL, but not my Million Miller status on DL.
No harm done. I would like to knoe what happens to OP's seating at the time of check-in.
Oct 4, 2012 | 9:08 am
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I should add that it's a situation where via LY I booked seats 29EF since we couldn't access D (aisle), but on AA i chose seats 29DE since it DID allow us to select aisle, so technically between both systems we are occupying the entire row of the SAME row. We aren't in 12AB on one and 33EF on the other or anything drastically different like that.
If we end up with the LY assignment of window being the one that goes through in the end, the world certainly is not over by any means.
If we end up with the LY assignment of window being the one that goes through in the end, the world certainly is not over by any means.