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Ok, I’ve just checked in to my reward flight tomorrow and my exit row seat reservation which I selected 4 months ago has been changed to to row 13!
No email from BA regarding change of aircraft etc
Is this normal practice? I cannot even see lower seat rows than 13 in the MMB
What’s the point of having BA silver seat reservation?
Had this on Lufty last month with paid seats. Got notified of an equipment change on one leg, but second leg seat also got moved to the back (neither aircraft had actually been swapped). Couldn’t move either seat back until check in. MMB said phone the call centre, call centre said under airport control and they couldnt do anything – this was 3 days before.
Also been bounced out of UC seats on Virgin for no reason on a 50% full cabin.
It sounds as if BA may have just moved Club Europe seats back as far as row 12, rather than changing the type of plane. It is bad luck but at least you hadn’t actually paid for your lost seat reservation.
Thanks Lynn, yea I thought that could be a possibility. But as a leisure traveler I do consider my status as a cost to me, which I’m seriously considering not bothering next year if this continues to happen.
These things happen! Can’t complain for a 50 pence flight!
You consider your status comes at a cost, but not your Avios?
In reality it cost you rather more than 50p and, unless you had no other use for the additional Avios / are very Avios rich you likely would have been better off paying more cash and less Avios.
You consider your status comes at a cost, but not your Avios?
In reality it cost you rather more than 50p and, unless you had no other use for the additional Avios / are very Avios rich you likely would have been better off paying more cash and less Avios.
Absolutely, the avios come from spend I have to make, food, fuel, bills, hotels, using free cards. so yes, plenty of avios to burn down. And I consider them as free points. Small exception with the amex plat as there is a membership fee to offset against the SUB.
tier points do cost me to obtain as my work travel has dried up some what.You could have earned cashback on that spend though and/or turn the Avios into Nectar points so there is at least an ‘opportunity cost’.
A very high proportion of ours also come from credit cards these days. We burn a lot through long haul travel, to the extent that I also jumped in on an Avios subscription before the price went up. For us it makes sense to apply the 1p rule, i.e. the cost / opportunity cost of acquiring Avios has to be less than 1p, and I consider that we’re spending 1p/Avios when we use them.
It will be different for everyone of course and you may have less use for the Avios if you are paying cash fares to earn tier points and maintain status. If you decide to stop chasing status, switching to a strategy of maximising redemption value potentially saves a lot of money against all but the very best cash deals.
Same happened to me on a flight recently – crew couldn’t tell me why but assumed someone had paid for the seat instead.
Same happened to me on a flight recently – crew couldn’t tell me why but assumed someone had paid for the seat instead.
Of course not! We’d be hearing about it multiple times a week on here otherwise
The likely situation if you’re sat in the “danger zone” of the front 12 rows (14 on an A321 iirc) is the curtain moved back and then forwards. I’ve monitored flights before where the curtain has moved up and down repeatedly on the days up to a flight. In that scenario you can be bumped back but if the curtain is then moved again, BA won’t move you back and your seats are open for someone else to nab
Just landed and yes, correct. Club cabin moved back to row 13. Busy flight.
The other thing to note with the curtain is I think on an A320 is once it gets to row 9 if they need bigger then it goes to row 12 (something like that) as it can’t be positioned over the exit row. In my experience BA are quite happy to extend it out and then upgrade a few people on very busy flights if needs be which as you experienced, seems to be a lot of them at the moment !
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