Cathay now also bans OW FF from pre-selecting seats

[exLXCXFF]

CX is definitely at war with OW FFs.

I am flying SIN - HKG once a month and always pre-select 59A or 59C (emergency seat) as QF Gold.

Just booked another flight and you now can no longer pre-select ANY seat.

A few forums brought this up earlier this week and it seems true.

Very sad…

 

[Viridis]

CX is definitely at war with OW FFs.

Maybe they’re just at war with QF (like QR etc)

I’m travelling to HKG early next year. BA Silver (which is OW equivalent to QF Gold I think) and booked my seat. But it’s J. Do CX not allow seat selection in Y?

Having said that, I couldn’t book my seat on QF recently on a domestic service (J). Maybe it’s just a ‘system’ thing

 

[RealtimeY]

I'm not seeing this behaviour on my upcoming SYD-HKG-HND flights as OWE, although after switching from my CX FF card to QFF card it now doesn't allow me to switch back.